You are Never Alone

UNESCO offices from Almaty to Yaoundé are organizing a wide range of activities, building on the theme of ‘leadership’ and the Organization’s longstanding work on HIV and AIDS.

UNESCO says that education contributes toward the knowledge and personal skills essential for the prevention of HIV, and the mitigation of the impacts caused by AIDS. Education also helps to overcome the conditions that facilitate the spread of HIV, including poverty, ill health, violence and abuse, particularly against girls and women. Beyond this, education can create the conditions of understanding and tolerance that contribute to reduced stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV. UNAIDS is UNESCO’s Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) on Education about Aids.

edna’s Global education website has an HIV/AIDS section with facts, background, teaching activities, resources, and case studies for use in Australian schools.

The red ribbon is the international symbol of HIV and AIDS awareness and was conceived more than 17 years ago by a group of artists in New York called “Visual AIDS Artists Caucus”. Red was chosen for the HIV/AIDS awareness ribbon to symbolise blood, danger and the idea of passion – including love and anger, while the tails of the ribbon were designed to point down to symbolise life flowing away.
For more information see World Aids Day Australia.