PREVIEW

Enhanced Protection for Children Affected by AIDS

January 1, 2007
Organization: United Nations Children's Fund

This paper provides additional information and outlines recommended actions for protecting affected children from increased vulnerability, and for reducing their increased risk of abuse, exploitation and neglect. While it discusses the protection issues facing children globally, its recommended action speak directly to the findings of Africa’s Orphaned and Vulnerable Generations: Children affected by AIDS, which was published in August 2006 and incorporates new research on the vulnerability of children in the region hardest hit by the epidemic.