Africa/Nigeria: How HIV/Aids affects education

Last week a league of non-governmental organisations met all over the world to deliberate on the Education for All (EFA) plan. The meeting which was tagged ‘Global Week of Action 2004 Roundtable on Education’ was also observed in Lagos. Various issues hindering the total achievement of the EFA goals were discussed. One of the topics discussed extensively at the roundtable, which attracted much debate, was the impact of HIV/AIDS on education in Nigeria. The participants agreed that the pandemic is having a colossal impact on the education sector of the country.