Statistics show that young people are among the most seriously affected by the pandemic.
Schools give the state a unique capacity to touch nearly every family, in every community, every day. Bellamy called upon schools to help overcome this kind of ignorance. It says studies in Africa have found an increase in condom use and a decrease in casual sex among teenagers who attend school. For example, in Uganda, which has one of the most comprehensive prevention programmes in Africa, infection rates among educated women has dropped by more than half between 1995 and 1997. But the numbers elsewhere show that HIV is infecting the young at an alarming rate.