This partnership rapidly launched a program to combat HIV/AIDS in Lesotho by strengthening the HIV/AIDS content in the Lesotho College of Education’s (LCE) curriculum for teachers in training. It initiated the first integrated voluntary counseling, testing, and antiretroviral treatment program (VCTRx) in Lesotho at the LCE, and ensured the sustainability and expansion of the program to cover all teachers and health workers by mobilizing existing funds. All teachers-in-training graduated from LCE having participated in a curriculum that gives them a sound knowledge of HIV/AIDS, instructs them on how to integrate this new knowledge into their own teaching in primary and secondary schools, encourages them to use this knowledge effectively in their role as community leaders.

In addition, a small but sufficient clinic offering general ambulatory medical services and VCTRx was staffed, equipped, supplied, and opened at the LCE and has been approved as a treatment site by the Government of Lesotho.