Luanda – Angolan Education minister, Mpinda Simão, said Monday that the relentless HIV/AIDS spread is becoming a serious problem to his sector, leading to its insertion into educative reform.

Mpinda Simão who was speaking at the opening of the workshop intended to review the strategic plan to combat HIV/AIDS and endemic diseases in the education sector adopted in 2006," said the Ministry of Education (MED) has been developing several continued training
and upgrading courses of teachers in this field.

According to the minister, the actions will cover headmasters and other technicians of the sector, with a view to responding to the threats posed by the epidemics.

The measures will also help develop specific policies of the sector related to HIV/AIDS, introducing programmes of prevention in the new courses in respective curricula.

Mpinda Simão also spoke of the need to adapt the techniques and develop new tools in order to prepare the teaching agents.