Before she became an education administrator, Glenda Rolle was a schoolteacher in her native Bahamas for 16 years, teaching language arts, family and consumer sciences, and social studies.
Before she became an education administrator, Glenda Rolle was a schoolteacher in her native Bahamas for 16 years, teaching language arts, family and consumer sciences, and social studies.
EduCan was established and funded by the Inter-American Development Bank, acting in its capacity as administrator of Japan Special Funds, executed by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. . For more information contact Arlene Husbands at ahusbands@edc.org.
HIV and AIDS have roots within the society, culture and economics of a country, so efforts to address this health issue must inevitably involve a multi-sectoral approach.
For more information about our work in the Caribbean or on HIV and AIDS, please contact Connie Constantine at 617-618-2459 or cconstantine@edc.org. This publication is part of the CARICOM-funded project Caribbean Education Sector HIV/AIDS Capacity Building Programme.
Since 1999, HHD Global Programs have been working to reduce the impact and burden of HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean, a region where the prevalence of HIV is the second highest in the world.
To learn more about HHD’s work to fight HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean and throughout the world, please contact Connie Constantine, 617-618-2459.
“The first two decades of the HIV and AIDS epidemic in the Caribbean saw the response largely concentrated within the health sector. It is only in recent years that the need for an expanded response from the education sector has been considered.” - Professors Michael Kelly and Brendan Bain
Source: Kelly, M. J. & Bain, B. (2004). Education and HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers. Available to purchase.
As one vehicle to combat the HIV and AIDS epidemic, CARICOM has recently awarded a contract to EDC’s Health and Human Development Programs, working with the University of the West Indies (UWI), to car
For more information, please contact: Mora Oommen, Project Coordinator: moommen@edc.org or 1-800-225-4276, ext. 2845; 1-617-618-2845.
HHD and UNESCO, in collaboration with Caribbean leaders in Trinidad and Tobago, have developed an advocacy and leadership campaign to advance the education sector’s response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
HHD, UNICEF, CARICOM, and local country partners have recently created a regional curriculum framework for Health and Family Life Education (HFLE) in the English-speaking Caribbean with the goal of im
