Since the first case was detected in the 1980s, AIDS has become one of the largest killers in the world. Every day, some 7,200 young people are contracting HIV in the world. In India, 15% of HIV/AIDS patients are children under 15 years of age. At a time when HIV infection is rising steadily, sex education – and its presence in...
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Eight EI affiliates in Benin have just set up a new joint committee called COSIEB to implement their HIV and AIDS education through schools programme. The eight unions organise teachers from early to higher education and will be able to reach out to teachers of all levels in Benin.
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Achieving the Education for All (EFA) goals can only become a reality through the intensive involvement of civil society including the teachers’ unions. But are governments really involving the unions? EI and a large number of civil society organisations convened in Dakar in September to discuss the status quo on EFA, at the hal...
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Michael Nasheya is the EFAIDS Coordinator at NANTU, the Namibia National Teachers' Union.
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EI strongly supports the Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) and the UN Millennium Campaign's worldwide action on 16-17 Oct.
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