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HIV killing teachers faster than they can be trained

Published in AIDS Weekly, June 24th, 2002

HIV/AIDS kills teachers faster than they can be trained, makes orphans of students, and threatens to derail efforts by highly infected countries to get all boys and girls into primary school by 2015.

This is the dire message of a new World Bank report. And yet a good basic education ranks among the most effective - and cost-effective - means of preventing HIV.

According to the new report, Education and HIV/AIDS: A Window of Hope, countries urgently need to strengthen their education systems. Education offers a window of hope unlike any other for countries, communities and families to escape the deadly grip of HIV/AIDS.

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