Positive Learning: Meeting the needs of young people living with
HIV (YPLHIV) in the education sector Young people living with
HIV are experiencing stigma, discrimination and challenges in
balancing their health and treatment needs with their education
attendance. GNP+ and UNESCO collaborated to identify and
document the needs of learners living with HIV and develop a set
of recommendations for action. The recommendations are simple,
practical and feasible, and are intended to give guidance to
educators, policy- and decision-makers as well as activists and
professionals working with young people to enable YPLHIV to
realise their personal, social and educational potential. Youth
Initiative on HIV & AIDS and Human Rights The initiative adopts
a participatory approach working with young people and
vulnerable groups, and it focuses on HIV-related stigma and
discrimination. Launched jointly in 1999 by UNESCO’s Social and
Human Sciences Sector and UNAIDS, the Initiative is based mainly
on the participatory approach