This brief offers two specific and comprehensive checklists for sectoral planners and managers: one on impact and the other on action.This is in recognition of the fact that impact creates an environment in which limited numbers of system managers and under-qualified and under-resourced educators wrestle with large numbers of disparetly aged learners whose lives are often touched by poverty, violence and social turbulence. This makes the system the most logical ground on which to to engage and counter the spread of HIV/AIDS infection.