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Strengthening the Education Sector Response to School Health, Nutrition and HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean Region : A Rapid Survey of 13 CountriesRecent studies point to a number of
 current and emerging concerns in the health and nutrition of
 school-age children in the Caribbean region. Critical among
 them are: infectious diseases including HIV and other
 sexually transmitted infections (STIs); non-communicable
 diseases (NCDs); and violence. Common health conditions
 including diabetes, hypertension and heart disease in the
 adult population can be positively linked to unhealthy
 lifestyles in youth. These health challenges, combined with
 a large school-age population, which in some countries may
 be a sizable third of the overall population, make a strong
 national response to the health and nutritional needs of
 school-age children particularly vital. As lifelong patterns
 of behavior and thinking are established during youth, it is
 critical to ensure early and widespread promotion of healthy
 practices related to sexual behavior, nutrition and a
 healthy lifestyle in general in the school-age population,
 resulting in a healthier adult population in the future. The
 rapid survey and this resulting report contribute to the
 collection of locally relevant evidence, as well as regional
 information relevant to School Health and Nutrition (SHN)
 and HIV, to build a sound evidence base at both country and
 regional levels to inform policy and strategy. It has
 further application as a resource for knowledge sharing as
 it provides a comparative perspective on activities and
 initiatives thus far implemented throughout the Caribbean
 region, and on the allocation and mobilization of resources
 used to support these activities and initiatives.
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School Health, Nutrition and HIV/AIDS Programming : Promising Practice in the Greater Mekong Sub-RegionIn low income countries, poor health and
 malnutrition are critical underlying factors for low school
 enrolment, absenteeism, poor classroom performance and
 dropout; all of which act as important constraints in
 countries efforts to achieve Education for All (EFA) and the
 education Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In the
 Greater Mekong Sub-Region (GMSR), the education and health
 sectors have long recognized that school health and
 nutrition programs can address the basic health problems
 faced by their schoolchildren. More recently, life skills
 modules and HIV prevention education are being introduced to
 promote positive and healthy behaviors. The currently low
 levels of HIV infection in the GMSR make a focus on
 prevention all the more timely. The aim of this document is
 to share emerging promising practice in the field of school
 health and nutrition within the GMSR and to inform
 governments, development partners and other organizations
 that recognize the need to harmonize activities and align
 assistance. It aims to strengthen the network of school
 health, nutrition and HIV/AIDS Ministry of Education Focal
 Points and further the establishment of a sound community of
 good practice in the sub-region. The document includes
 descriptions a wide range of different activities from the
 six GMSR countries of Cambodia, China (Yunnan Province), Lao
 People's Democratic Republic (PDR), Myanmar, Thailand
 and Vietnam.
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SABER - School Health : Preliminary Assessment of School Health Policies in the Caribbean CommunityThis report presents the findings of the
 2012 pilot assessment of the school health policies for the
 following Caribbean community (CARICOM) countries: Dominica,
 Grenada, Guyana, St. Lucia, Barbados, and St. Vincent and
 the Grenadines. The objective of this exercise is to help
 countries to identify the strengths and weaknesses in their
 school health policy frameworks, with the understanding that
 sound a policy framework is a critical component of
 effective school health programming. The result is a
 preliminary report on the status of development of the
 school health policy framework in the six countries. Section
 one gives introduction. Section two briefly discusses the
 importance of school health programs in contributing to
 education sector goals and the development of international
 consensus on the basic building blocks of effective school
 health programs. Section three discusses the conceptual
 framework of system assessment and benchmarking for
 education results (SABER) - school health, and introduces
 the components of the SABER - school health framework and
 scoring system. Section four provides the context for and
 objectives of this assessment as well the methodology used
 for data collection. Section five presents the results for
 the six countries: first by individual country and then as a
 comparative analysis across each of four policy domains.