Prevention - HIV/AIDS

As part of an effort to increase the participation of South Sudanese in the peace process and now the civic life of their new nation, the Sudan Radio Service provides access to balanced and useful information through radio-based education, news, and entertainment programs presented by local presenters in nine languages. Independent research found that Sudan Radio Service has approximately one million listeners.

Sudan Radio Service also builds the capacity of Sudanese journalists through its Certificate in Broadcast Journalism program and through on-the-job training.

EDC will continue to support the Caribbean’s education sector in their comprehensive response to HIV and AIDS. To build their capacity in program monitoring and evaluation, EDC will organize a regional, multi-agency, inter-sectoral workshop to reach consensus on the draft framework developed previously and outline the content of an accompanying capacity development tool; draft the capacity development toolkit; circulate and revise the monitoring and evaluation framework and capacity development toolkit; and integrate comments and recommended revisions from regional and national partners.

Education International (EI), EDC, and the World Health Organization work with teacher-union affiliates in nearly 50 countries in Africa, Asia, Caribbean, and Latin America to prevent new HIV infections, increase the number of learners completing basic education, and mitigate the impact of HIV and AIDS on achieving Education For All Goals. This work involves a range of activities including training, policy development, advocacy, research, publicity and communications.

The new EDC e-Learning & Capacity Building Assistance Center will promote the effective delivery of evidence-based behavioral interventions, early HIV counseling, testing, and referrals to African American and Latino communities which are disproportionately burdened by the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Padres Unidos por la Salud y el Éxito de Nuestros Hijos will assess an intervention aimed at reducing behaviors among youth that lead to elevated levels of HIV/AIDS in urban Latino communities. The intervention, Salud y Éxito, consists of parent education delivered through bilingual audio-CDs to promote positive parenting practices. Salud y Éxito Más will also be tested. This enhanced version of the parent-mediated approach integrates audio-CD parent education with a school-based parent involvement program, PALMS Tools for Latino Family Outreach.

This rigorous three-arm randomized experiment tests whether an innovative multi-year parent-mediated HIV intervention, Preparing Our Sons and Daughters for Healthy Futures, reduces HIV risks among African American youth living in high-poverty urban neighborhoods. About 1500 families with 6th graders in New York City public schools are being enrolled and will be followed through 9th grade.

Serving communities in the Three Areas, HEAR Sudan builds capacity of local stakeholders to plan, implement and monitor health and education services, helps translate this increased capacity into action, and builds community support for school governance and outreach. HEAR strengthens linkages between educators and health workers with the aim of increasing healthy girls’ and boys’ access to quality education.

The Zambia QUESTT Project aims to improve the quality of basic education delivery systems and to mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS on children’s educational experiences (both in and out of government schools). To accomplish these objectives, QUESTT is leading several initiatives to improve teacher practice through the integration of Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) in government schools and technology-based interventions. These interventions include the use of video and cell phone communication for both in-service and preservice teacher support.