Advancing Education

Gaps in Research

1.
Successful efforts to increase educational attainment for girls must be scaled up.
2.
Interventions are needed for school children that suffer from violence on the way or at school.

1. Successful efforts to increase educational attainment for girls must be scaled up. Studies and surveys found that girls lag behind boys in educational attainment.

Gap noted, for example, in 11 DHS countries.

Hargreaves and Glenn, 2002; World Bank, 2002 cited in Global Campaign for Education, 2004

Hargreaves, J. and J. Glynn. 2002. “Educational Attainment and HIV-1 Infection in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review.” Tropical Medicine and International Health 7 (6): 489-498.

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2. Interventions are needed for school children that suffer from violence on the way to or at school. Studies found that girls suffer from violence both on the way and at school.

Gap noted, for example, generally (WHO, 2006 cited in USAID, 2008a; USAID, 2008a). Increased recognition of sexual harassment by students was found in Ghana, but no HIV related outcomes were studied (USAID, 2008a).

WHO, 2006 cited in USAID, 2008a; USAID, 2008a

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