Resources to Support Children and Adolescents Living with HIV
April 3, 2024FHI 360 has recently developed three resources to support children and adolescents living with HIV and improve their treatment outcomes. They include: Package of Services and Interventions for Children and Adolescents Living with HIV: Guidance for Orphans and Vulnerable Children: This document describes the package of services and interventions that OVC programs should provide to… 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 »Meeting the needs of orphans and other vulnerable children: learnings from Project SOAR
November 8, 2019Project SOAR conducts HIV operations research to identify practical solutions to improve HIV prevention, care, and treatment services. They have been conducting a number of research studies on documenting the unique vulnerabilities of these orphans and vulnerable children and their caregivers, and examining strategies to mitigate the impacts of HIV on them. This research brief… View Article
Read more »Strengthening Caregiver Parenting Skills for Family Reintegration
October 10, 2019Keeping Children in Healthy and Protective Families (KCHPF) is an operational research project that supported the reintegration of children living in residential care back into family care. The research was designed to evaluate the impact of adding a household-based parenting program to a standardized reintegration package that included individualized case management support and a reunification… View Article
Read more »Adapting a Parenting Program to Support Family Reintegration
October 8, 2019Keeping Children in Healthy and Protective Families (KCHPF) is an operational research project that supported the reintegration of children living in residential care back into family care. The research was designed to evaluate the impact of adding a household-based parenting program to a standardized reintegration package that included individualized case management support and a reunification… View Article
Read more »Children in Adverse Situations Indicators and Survey Tools
October 2, 2019Although research has shed some light on the vulnerabilities and needs of children living in such adverse situations, until now, no standardized indicators have been released to guide practitioners in measuring the extent of their risk to HIV. The goal of the Children in Adverse Situations Indicators and Survey Tools is to answer the following… View Article
Read more »Neurodevelopment of HIV-exposed uninfected children in South Africa: outcomes from an observational birth cohort study
September 23, 2019The developmental effects for HIV-exposed uninfected children is still unclear. This article includes a summary of related research results and adds its own results. This study adds to the evidence with results indicating that uninfected children exposed to maternal HIV infection and antiretroviral therapy have increased odds of receptive and expressive language delays at 2… View Article
Read more »Community beliefs, HIV stigma, and depression among adolescents living with HIV in rural Uganda
September 16, 2019With antiretroviral therapy (ART) readily available, many perinatally infected youth are reaching adolescents. This qualitative study in Uganda asked some important questions about the psychosocial support that adolescents living with HIV receive and the impact that it has on their mental health and HIV treatment outcomes. Youth reported adversities such as negative community perceptions (perceived… View Article
Read more »Advancing Protection and Care for Children in Adversity 2019-2023: A U.S. Government Strategy for International Assistance
July 1, 2019The Strategy builds on three evidence-based objectives that inform the U.S. Government’s policies and programs to benefit the world’s most-vulnerable children. The objectives are (1) Build Strong Beginnings (2) Put Family First (3) Protect Children From Violence. The guiding principles for the strategy include: adapt approaches, strengthen systems, generate and use evidence-based information, create synergies,… View Article
Read more »Prevalence of disability in HIV-infected children attending an urban paediatric HIV clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa
February 13, 2019Children vertically infected with HIV have been shown to have developmental difficulties and disabilities. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of disabilities among a group of HIV infected children in South Africa and whether they are being referred to and accessing support services. Of the 200 children whose parents were interviewed, 50.5% experienced disabilities,… View Article
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