Guide: Supporting Pediatric ART Adherence
December 6, 2021Lay health workers, OVC case managers, and community health workers can play an important role in pediatric and adolescent HIV treatment adherence. The CDC partnered with ICAP to develop training materials to support OVC case managers lay workers and community health workers, and other community-based cadres to support peds ART adherence. By understanding the basic… View Article
Read more »Determinants of Implementing Cash Transfer Program for Orphans and Vulnerable Children: A Case of Isiolo County, Kenya
February 3, 2020Cash transfer (CT) programs play a vital role in the provision of social protection systems through regular and predictable cash payments to ultra-poor households. Kenya has an established cash transfer program for orphans and vulnerable children. This study had three objectives: 1. To examine influence of government monthly cash transfer on the implementation of OVC… View Article
Read more »Suubi+Adherence study protocol: A family economic empowerment intervention addressing HIV treatment adherence for perinatally infected adolescents
November 8, 2019This study aims to advance knowledge and inform the development of the next generation of programs aimed at increasing adherence to HIV treatment for HIV+ adolescents in low-resource regions such as sub-Saharan Africa. This is the first time research has looked at integrating and testing family economic empowerment and stability-focused interventions for HIV+ adolescents in… View Article
Read more »FACTORS INFLUENCING UTILIZATION OF CASH TRANSFERRED TO ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN RUNYENJES CONSTITUENCY, EMBU COUNTY, KENYA
August 13, 2019Using a descriptive design, this study aimed to answer how demographic characteristics of caregivers influence utilization of cash transferred to OVC,to determine how home factors influence utilization of cash transferred to OVC, to determine how the frequency of cash transferred influence utilization of cash transferred to OVC and to establish how the attitude of beneficiaries… View Article
Read more »Monitoring Child Protection within Humanitarian Cash Programmes
July 1, 2019The study intends to inform the development and piloting of new approach to integrating child protection concerns into multi-purpose cash monitoring frameworks. The report summarizes findings from initial scoping studies in four countries. It also discusses a theory of change, monitoring challenges, links to existing initiatives and recommendations.
Read more »Financial education for HIV-vulnerable youth, orphans and vulnerable children: a systematic review of outcome evidence
June 18, 2019This study was designed to fill in some of the gaps in knowledge pertaining to financial education for OVC and improvements in health and HIV prevention. This review supports emerging evidence that plural interventions, combining sexual and reproductive health with financial education, are associated with positive health and economic outcomes for vulnerable youth and children… View Article
Read more »Cash Transfer Programming and Child Protection in Humanitarian Action: Review and opportunities to strengthen the evidence
June 10, 2019This report summarizes the evidence for cash transfer programming and child protection in humanitarian contexts and recommends areas for action and further research. It highlights the gaps, needs, and opportunities found in the literature and confirmed by experts working across child protection, cash transfer programming, and other relevant areas of humanitarian action and international development.
Read more »Conditional cash transfers to prevent mother-to-child transmission in low facility-delivery settings: evidence from a randomised controlled trial in Nigeria
January 23, 2019Preventing HIV transmission from mother to child is possible, but it requires adherence to many steps in the prevention-of-mother-to-child (PMTCT) cascade. Nigeria has one of the highest rates of transmission to newborns with 1 in 3 children born with HIV being born in Nigeria. The government of Nigeria has scaled up provision of PMTCT services,… View Article
Read more »Savings Groups for Adolescents and Youth Affected by HIV: A Technical Guide
January 14, 2019The relationship between poverty and HIV is complex, but the evidence of that relationship has been so strong that household economic strengthening (HES) interventions are considered core to OVC programming. Informal saving and lending groups, or savings groups (SGs), are among the most commonly implemented HES interventions in the PEPFAR programming portfolio–historically, they have targeted… View Article
Read more »The African Report on Child Wellbeing 2018
December 10, 2018The report is based on the Child- Friendliness Index (CFI), which ranks 52 African nations on progress towards realizing the rights and wellbeing of children. The CFI rates Mauritius, Algeria, Tunisia, South Africa, Cabo Verde, Egypt, Namibia, Seychelles, Swaziland, Morocco and Lesotho as the most child friendly African countries, while South Sudan, Central African Republic,… View Article
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