PREVIEW

Accelerating the Education Sector response to HIV

January 1, 2007
Organization: United Nations Children's Fund

This document is a review of the ‘Accelerate Initiative’, a working group launched in 2002 by the UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team on Education to prevent infection among adolescents and young people and to protect and support children affected by HIV and AIDS. The initiative was established to make use of education as a tool in reducing stigma and in promoting prevention, providing access to care, treatment and support for teachers and staff.