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Africa sub-Regional HIV and AIDS Skill Building Workshop
Taj Pamodzi Hotel - Lusaka, Zambia: 23 – 27 April, 2007

As indicated in the concept note of the Africa Sub-regional HIV and AIDS skills building workshops, UNESCO aims to support Member States to move towards universal access to comprehensive HIV prevention programmes, treatment, care and support in line with the UNAIDS division of labour in the context of Education for All (EFA) and the newly revised UNESCO strategy on HIV and AIDS.

EDUCAIDS is a means to support comprehensive education sector responses to HIV and AIDS and to ensure that the education sector is engaged in and contributing to national HIV and AIDS responses. The Africa sub-regional HIV and AIDS workshops - organized jointly by the Section on HIV and AIDS in UNESCO Headquarters, the UNESCO Office in Harare, Zimbabwe, and the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Education (BREDA) Dakar, Senegal - offer an important opportunity to strengthen the capacity of UNESCO and education sector partners to implement EDUCAIDS.

The Lusaka sub-regional Anglo-phone workshop (23 – 27 April, 2007) was held against the backdrop of the broad approach of implementing a series of workshops as steps in continuing and deepening strategic action on education and HIV and AIDS. It presented an opportunity to identify country-specific follow-up actions from participants from UNESCO BREDA, ROSTA, IICBA, UNESCO Windhoek, UNESCO Paris, UNESCO Dar es Salaam, UNESCO Harare, UNESCO Maputo, UNESCO Bamako, Swaziland National Commission for UNESCO, Civil societies in the above countries as well as Ministries of education and UN agencies.

Using the Harare Cluster Office HIV and AIDS Education Training Module and publications from the UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) on Education relating to Quality Education and HIV and AIDS and Treatment Education, the participatory run workshop, officially opened by the Minister of Education in Zambia, Hon. G. Lungwanga achieved its objectives in improving the capacity, skills and teamwork among UNESCO and its partners in the HIV and AIDS response, reviewing and further developing analyses of comprehensive national education sector responses to HIV and AIDS and identifying and prioritizing follow-up actions to address needs as well as refreshing and further developing participants’ skills in particular thematic areas relevant to universal access, including prevention education and treatment education.

The exchange of information, experiences, lessons and future plans, updates on EDUCAIDS; other relevant thematic work such as TTISSA, LIFE, FRESH, the joint initiative on life skills for Eastern and Southern Africa; and links to other UNESCO sectors such as culture and social and human sciences, discussions of the World AIDS Conference in Toronto in mid-2006; input on specific relevant technical areas, including prevention education and treatment education; participation of people living with HIV who are engaged in education sector responses and the reflection of country delegations and development of specific follow-up action plans enabled the week long workshop to come up with concrete plans for future action.

The evaluation exercise at the end of the workshop revealed that participants were indeed eager to learn from each other and share information at the workshop. The sessions on Treatment Education as well as that of sharing of good practices were very well received.

There was a generally improved understanding of EDUCAIDS and participants’ desire to use it in their various contexts. This experience will certainly present lessons for the forthcoming Lusophone and Francophone workshops being held in the same context.

For more information, contact Juma Shabani or read the full report (pdf).