Education Plus Initiative
@EducPlus2025
Every girl and young woman in Africa completing secondary education, safe, strong and empowered, free from gender discrimination, violence and HIV/AIDS.
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Enabling girls to complete their secondary education protects them against HIV & improves many other health and development outcomes.
Find out more about the #EducationPlus initiative 👉🏾unaids.org/en/resources/d…
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This is a global learning crisis and we can no longer stay silent.
It‘s time to raise our voice for a world where education is not a luxury but human right.
on.unesco.org/LiteracyDay2022 #LiteracyDay
When girls complete secondary school, their risk of getting HIV is reduced by up to 50%!
But nearly 34 million secondary school-aged girls in Africa did not have access to secondary education in 2018.
Find out about the #EducationPlus initiative 👉🏾 bit.ly/3ttIqY2
The education and health of young people is everyone's business 👥.The role of parents, teachers, health and education professionals, authorities, religious and community leaders is key to overcoming taboos 🔓and enabling young people to thrive #EducationSavesLives #WeNeedToKnow
Only 10 days left until the #TransformingEducation Summit.
📅 16, 17 & 19 September
📍 @un in NYC
The Summit will provide a unique opportunity to elevate education to the top of the global political agenda.
🔗 un.org/en/transformin… #LetMeLearn
This September, world leaders will meet at the United Nations #TransformingEducation summit in New York.
#EducationPlus calls for the implementation of gender-transformative policies to ensure universal access to quality secondary school education for all.
#LetMeLearn
📊There’s proof!
Young people 👩🏫 informed about their sexual and reproductive rights & health = responsible behaviors including delaying sexual debut, using contraception & condoms.
#EducationSavesLives
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The education and health of young people are everyone's business.
Parents, teachers, health professionals, religious and community leaders are key to overcoming taboos and enabling young people to thrive.
#EducationSavesLives #WeNeedToKnow .
Every adolescent girl and young woman completing secondary school, safe, strong and empowered. Let us embrace Education Plus Initiative.
Ms Ketty Lamaro Permanent Secretary Ministry of Education and Sports - Uganda during the launch of Education Plus in Uganda.
Jackie Makokha
What does #TransformingEducation to #LetMeLearn mean? Ensuring that all learners
📕 Have access to quality edu
📘 Are free from discrimination
📗 Learn in safe environments
To achieve this, 🌏 leaders are coming to the United Nations Summit 🔗 un.org/en/transformin…
Let's join forces!
This month, world leaders will meet at the United Nations #TransformingEducation summit in New York. Young people have a message for their leaders: #LetMeLearn . It is time for leaders to take this demand seriously.
We also know that keeping them in school where their safety and health needs can be catered for is essential to reducing new #HIV infections. It is time for Education Plus Initiative.
Jackie Makokha Winnie Byanyima UNAIDS Eastern & Southern Africa
Today is #WorldSexualHealthDay !
It is essential to uphold sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender transformative comprehensive sexual education.
We must educate girls about their choices and support them to make them well.
This September, world leaders will meet at the United Nations #TransformingEducation summit in New York.
#EducationPlus calls for the implementation of gender-transformative policies to ensure universal access to quality secondary school education for all.
#LetMeLearn