AIDS in Africa: three scenarios for the education sector

Three scenarios for the education sector in the context of AIDS in Africa

By: Bennell P
Produced for: UNAIDS, 2004

This report presents three distinct scenarios of how the AIDS epidemic could impact on the education sector in sub-Saharan Africa over the next two decades and, in particular, the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals for education.

The first scenario suggests that the impact of the epidemic on education will be much less than is anticipated mainly because the country projections of HIV infection are over-estimated and that governments will be able to introduce effective HIV prevention programmes and provide life saving anti-retroviral drugs to affected teachers.