Partnership

Development partners' response
 
The HIV&AIDS education sub-regional programme is in harmony with the United Nations joint programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). In fact, at the request of countries affected by HIV&AIDS, the UNAIDS Interagency Task Team (IATT) for Education Working Group to "Accelerate the Education Sector Response to HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa" was established as a mechanism for coordinating action on AIDS and education among the UNAIDS co-sponsors, bilateral donors and Civil Society.

A partnership in the ECOWAS region between key actors has been set up and aims to address the key ECOWAS goals as follows:

Creation of a framework for consultation, exchange and sharing of experiences among actors in the field of HIV&AIDS education in ECOWAS Member States. The partnership is creating an interactive network among all 15 Francophone, Anglophone and Portuguese countries and Mauritania. A website is also being set up in collaboration with the Partnership for Child Development at Imperial College School of Medicine, London.

Promotion of a context-specific teaching centred on life skills at all levels of educational systems. Through collaboration with the UNICEF Regional Life Skills Program, and UNESCO's program on curriculum development and teacher training, the partnership is providing specific inputs to country teams.

Promotion of care for HIV&AIDS affected or infected personnel in the educational systems through promoting linkages between the education sector and national AIDS authorities.