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This a Global Initiative on Education and HIV & AIDS led by UNESCO in collaboration with UNAIDS. It seeks to promote, develop and support comprehensive education sector responses to HIV and AIDS. EDUCAIDS provides a range of tools to so support a comprehensive response to HIV in the education sector.

Supports education professionals, ministries of education, development agencies, civil society, researchers and other partners by providing a comprehensive knowledge base and information exchange service for the development of HIV and AIDS policies, programmes and advocacy within the education sector.

The President's Africa Education Initiative (AEI) is a $600-million multi-year initiative that focuses on increasing access to quality basic education in 39 sub-Saharan countries through scholarships, textbooks, and teacher training programs. Eighty million African children will have benefited from AEI by 2010.

The Support for Analysis and Research in Africa (SARA) project is managed by the Academy for Educational Development. The SARA project supports the work of USAID's Bureau for Africa, Office of Sustainable Development (AFR/SD) to improve policies and programs in health and basic education.

The UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) on Education was created in 2002 to support accelerated and improved education sector responses to HIV and AIDS. It is convened by UNESCO.

The Accelerate Initiative Working Group aims to help countries in sub-Saharan Africa to accelerate the education sector response to HIV and AIDS.

Speak for the Child or Tumaini Letu supports families and communities in western Kenya to improve the health, nutrition, education, and psychosocial care of children orphaned and affected by HIV/AIDS.