Education contributes to knowledge and personal skills that are essential for HIV prevention. In countries with a generalized HIV epidemic, the education sector also contributes to mitigating the impact of AIDS on students, education personnel, their families and communities. Monitoring and evaluating the role of education in the response to the HIV epidemic is important for countries to improve the quality of their policies and school based programmes.

The purpose of this document, Measuring the Education Sector Response to HIV and AIDS: Guidelines for the construction of core indicators, is to provide ministries of education and other education stakeholders involved in country responses to AIDS with clear guidelines on the use of core indicators to measure the education sector response to HIV and AIDS.