Providing curriculum advice for different age-levels that takes account of previous learning and existing awareness levels, addressing not only knowledge, skills and attitudes but also ways of coping with grief and loss;

Developing ways to strengthen the ability of education systems and schools to care for and support orphans and children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS;

Developing teacher training modules to enhance the knowledge, skills and motivation of teachers as well as their capacity to serve as role models, especially through the inclusion of children affected by AIDS;

Developing effective non-formal approaches that target out-of-school and post-school youth as well as flexible alternatives to formal education timetables, calendars and curricula;

Enhancing planning and management capacity to deal with the impacts of the epidemic on education, especially in terms of demand, supply and quality;

Generating strategies to address contextual factors that, in association with the HIV/AIDS epidemic and its impact, affect the quality of education and, in particular, render children and young people vulnerable and at risk; these diverse factors include equality of access, school-community relations, the physical infrastructure of schools and school systems, the location and size of schools, age distribution in classes, etc.