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Learning to survive: education and HIV/AIDS (pdf 476kb)

Education, even at the primary school level can help improve knowledge, encourage safer behaviour, and reduce infection rates, leading some UN and World Bank experts to describe education as a 'social vaccine' to HIV/AIDS.

This report examines emerging data, draws on case studies and provides key recommendations on how education can play a critical role in fighting the spread of HIV/AIDS.

 

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