School Health and Safety
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EI organises seminars to raise awareness on specific issues in the area of health and safety depending on the region, such as violence in school in the Europe region and HIV/AIDS prevention programme in the Africa region. EI also coordinates training programmes with the WHO in the Asia-Pacific region on effective school health programmes.
Since January 2006, EI initiated a EFAIDS (Education For All and HIV/AIDS Prevention) Programme with its partners the WHO (World Health Organisation) and EDC (Education Development Center). It combines the efforts of teachers’ unions in advocating for Education For All (EFA) at national level with their commitment to HIV/AIDS prevention in schools locally. The Programme is essentially a fusion of two previously separate initiatives, namely the HIV/AIDS Prevention Programme and the EFA Programme. For more information about this programme, please visit its website: http://www.ei-ie.org/efaids
At the world level, EI joins other Global Union Federations in the “Ban Asbestos” campaign.