The UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) on Education and School Health, and UNESCO as a secretariat, hosted the 2017 IATT Symposium and Members Meeting in Lusaka, Zambia on May 10th and 11th May.

The theme for the symposium was Lessons from Implementing HIV and school initiatives; exploring gaps and opportunities for gender responsive programming in education.

Dylan Ramshaw, IPA Zambia Country Director, presented the preliminary results of the study “The Impact of Teaching Girls Negotiation Skills in Zambia” and participated in a lively panel discussion on Making the Case for Gender Responsive Education Systems: What Does the Evidence Say?