Guest Editor: W. James Jacob This issue undertakes a systematic analysis of the relationship between HIV and AIDS and education. It aims to continue the dialogue regarding the factors that include education and the HIV epidemic and to generate further multi- sectoral responses to stop the epidemic. Education has a key role to play not only in preventing HIV, but also in capacity building, knowledge, and skills to address risk behaviours, help young people resist pressure, and reduce stigma and discrimination against those infected with HIV and AIDS. By bringing together experienced government leaders, policy makers, practitioners, and researchers, this issue of Prospects facilitates reflection on the most important topics of HIV education, including the integration of HIV and AIDS education into the formal curriculum, the role of non-formal education, and the importance of a unified response by both governmental and non-governmental agencies. Its content should be of interest and value to policy makers, government planners, school administrators and teachers, youth leaders, and leaders of other organizations committed to increasing the role that education can play in the response to HIV and AIDS. Prospects is UNESCO’s quarterly review of comparative education.
