Education is critical to HIV prevention

Promote Education for All
Education is critical to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support, and to mitigate the
effects of HIV on individuals, families and communities99. Education expands choices,
reduces risky behaviours, diminishes stigma and discrimination, and promotes individual
and community resilience. Education contributes to poverty reduction and the elimination
of gender inequalities, and fosters economic independence, delayed marriage, and improved
of sexuality. Education also creates economic and life opportunities apart from sex work100.
While there has been steady progress towards the global goal of Education for All, significant
gaps remain, as some 70 million children—more than half of whom are girls—are still
not enrolled in primary school. It is essential that educational opportunities be expanded to
meet the needs of children, young people and adults