Gender Equality, HIV, and AIDS A Challenge for the Education Sector

Name: Gender Equality, HIV, and AIDS A Challenge for the Education Sector
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ISBN: 9780855985868

ISBN-10: 0855985860

ISBN-13: 9780855985868

Edition: 2008

Authors: Sheila Aikman, Elaine Unterhalter, Tania Boler, Oxfam GB Staff, ActionAid (Organization) Staff

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"Gender inequalities in society are driving aspects of the HIV epidemic, and this is particularly the case in the education sector. Work to raise awareness of HIV and AIDS in educational settings can be empowering, however, and bring about change." "Gender Equality, HIV, and AIDS explains and illustrates some of the key arguments and debates in the education sector by: examining different expectations of what HIV education programmes and education settings can do to transform unequal gender relations, protect young people against HIV and AIDS, and contribute to care for those affected and infected; warning that an uncritical acceptance that education is a 'social vaccine' protecting young…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxfam Publishing
Publication date: 12/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Sheila Aikman is Global Education Policy Adviser at Oxfam Great Britain and co-editor, with Elaine Unterhalter, of Beyond Access: Transforming Policy and Practice for Gender Equality in Education.

Elaine Unterhalter is Professor of Education and International Development at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK.

Tania Boler is a leading specialist in HIV and Education. Through her work at ActionAid and in the United Nations, she has pioneered seminal research across Africa, Asia and Latin America.



Introduction




Gender, Education, and HIV - Mapping the Challenges



Essentialism, equality,and empowerment: concepts of gender and schooling in the HIV and AIDS epidemic




Girls' education and vulnerability to HIV infection in Africa




Gender inequality in primary education in the context of HIV and AIDS: a challenge for Uganda




Violence against girls: are schools doing enough to protect them against HIV and AIDS?




The gendered impact of AIDS on orphans and education in KwaZulu-Naral, South Africa




Building the Evidence Base to Meet the Challenges



The road less travelled: gender-based interventions in the education-sector response to HIV




'One finger cannot kill a louse' - working with schools on gender, sexuality, and HIV in rural Zambia




Mobilising care: accounts of gender equality, schooling, and the HIV epidemic in Durban, South Africa




Development, gender, HIVand AIDS, and adult education: challenges in Thailand




Engaging the community to promote gender equity among young men experiences from 'Yari Dosti' in Murnbai




Building multi-sectoral partnerships to deliver gendered HIV education in schools: the Nigerian experience



Conclusion: HIV and AIDS and gender - the challenges for empowerment and change



Index