Support to the UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team on Education 2011-2013

Results achieved as of December 2012 include: (1) an international symposium hosted by the Commonwealth Secretariat in London was organized to review the initial findings and policy implications of the 2011-2012 Education Sector HIV and AIDS Global Progress Survey from 39 countries; (2) data collection and analysis of the global progress surveys of 39 countries was completed and education sector engagement in national HIV responses was assessed; (3) an extensive literature review was completed and a corresponding set of communication tools were developed to support advocacy for greater support to the education sector response to HIV; (4) a satellite event was organized at the 2012 International AIDS Conference in Washington DC to review good policies and practices in education sector responses to HIV; (5) two presentations were held at the 18th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers in August 2012 in Port Louis Mauritius on skills-based health education including HIV; and (6) more than 2 000 e-versions and several hundred hard copies of IATT publications were disseminated to stakeholders throughout the world.