AEGiS-IRIN: ZAMBIA: HIV/AIDS depletes Zambia's teacher population

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ZAMBIA: HIV/AIDS depletes Zambia's teacher population

Integrated Regional Information Networks - December 8, 2000

Although Zambia's school enrolment has continued to grow at an annual rate of 2.3 percent, the rising prevalence of HIV/AIDS continues to deplete the population of teachers at an alarming rate, news reports said this week. In 1998, the Zambian ministry of education reported that 1,331 teachers died as a result of AIDS. Recent studies have indicated an HIV/AIDS prevalence rate of up to 40 percent among teachers.

According to a study conducted by the council and secretariat of Zambia's National HIV/AIDS/STD/TB Institutional Framework 2001-2003, the high rate of mortality and morbidity has further aggravated the scarcity of human resources. "Apart from being understaffed, the productivity of teachers has dropped in part as a result of absences due to illness," the study says.

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