315.To address the challenges posed by this system, the Ministry of Education has been providing guidance to different categories of experts, school principals, teachers, parents and guardians, and colleagues of students with special educational needs. The aim is to develop strategies and materials suitable for allinclusive class rooms. 316.As part of Vocational Guidance and Professional Training, a total of 1,504 persons with disabilities, including 588 women and 690 men have been trained in the fields of civil construction, carpentry, plumbing, sewing and tailoring, pottery, embroidery, electrical work, mechanics, accountancy, hotel management and tourism, information technology, English language, HIV/AIDS, disabilities, sexual and reproductive health, law, farming and cattle raising, shoemaking, metalwork, auto electrical work, secretarial work, and auto mechanics. Training has been provided to 150 demobilized soldiers and people with disabilities in the areas of civil construction, carpentry, mechanics, electrictal work, and farm and cattle raising. 317.A total of 2,285 teachers have been trained to deal with special educational needs throughout the country as part of the Basic Education and Literacy Program for Youths and Adults. Training focused on all-inclusive education methodology, sign language and Braille. A total of 92,103 students with Special Education Needs have been integrated into the education system. Of this number, 24,898 are women, 117 of whom enrolled at high schools, and 18 at universities. 318.As part of the Employment and Assistance to the Needy program aimed at easing poverty in the country, about 2,849 people with disabilities work for the formal sector in the various provinces, namely at the Provincial Directorates of Education, Women and Social Action, Health, Labor, Public Works and Housing, Transport and Communications, Planning and Finance, Justice, Agriculture, Mozambique Telecommunications, SOLDER MED, National Elections Commission, Radio Mozambique, Municipal Councils, Mozambique Christian Council and Mozambique Postal Services. About 487 people with disabilities have benefitted from microcredit facilities and 165 are self-employed. 319.Under the same program, material, financial and psychosocial assistance has been provided to 990 people with disabilities, including 458 women and 532 men. A total of 2,431 women and 658 men with disabilities have been integrated into income-generating programs. 320.A Social Benefit for Work Program has been put in place. It has catered for 4,029 786 men and 3,243 women. 321.A total of 40 associations of people with disabilities have been trained on how to be accredited with partners/donors for the purpose of raising funds and obtaining equipment. 322.Interventions in the HIV/AIDS area: Combined Report from the Republic of Mozambique to the ACHPR, 1999-2010 56