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Elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV: lessons learned from success in Thailand

February 13, 2017

Thailand is the first country to achieve the World Health Organization’s (WHO) targets for the elimination of mother-to-child transmission. One lesson learned points to the importance of an effective monitoring system in bringing about a massive, multi-sectoral response. All sectors of Thai society had shared commitment, decision-making, resources and efforts. This article reviews the science… View Article

OVCimpact.org: A Community of Practice hosted by MEASURE Evaluation

February 10, 2017

OVCimpact.org is a Community of Practice created by the MEASURE Evaluation Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) team to encourage learning on the implementation of the OVC survey toolkit and the collection of the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting (MER) Essential Survey Indicators. OVCimpact.org hosts resources and webinars and aims to increase dialogue between implementing partners and… View Article

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HIV Stigma: Perspectives from Kenya Child Caregivers and Adolescents Living with HIV

February 6, 2017

While knowledge about AIDS and access to treatment have increased, this qualitative research from western Kenya suggests that stigma remains high. Participants have faced inaccurate and negative attitudes about how they got the disease and experienced negative social and economic consequences as well as internalized negative feelings about themselves. Treatment related impacts of stigma included… View Article

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Talking to children about their HIV status: a review of available resources, tools, and models for improving and promoting pediatric disclosure

January 19, 2017

Many studies have documented the struggles of caregivers and health care workers to disclose to a child that he or she has HIV. This paper is significant in citing all of those studies and aggregating the common barriers to disclosure. Further, this study looked at all of the available resources on disclosure and found from… View Article

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Improving child wellbeing and care in Sub-Saharan Africa: The role of social protection

January 18, 2017

This article discusses the results of a cross-country research project in Sub-Saharan Africa regarding the impact of social protection on loss of parental care, support to foster or kinship care and quality of care and wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa. The research conducted investigates a large-scale nationally implemented cash transfer and public works programmes in Ghana,… View Article

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A comparative assessment of generalized anxiety, conduct and peer relationship problems among AIDS and other orphaned children in India

Researchers compared the generalized anxiety, conduct and peer relationship problems and their associated risk factors among children orphaned by HIV/ AIDS and those due to other reasons in the Indian city of Hyderabad and found that a significantly high proportion of AIDS orphans deal with generalized anxiety, conduct and peer relationship problem as compared with… View Article

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Why do Kenyan children live on the streets? Evidence from a cross-section of semi-rural maternal caregivers

December 27, 2016

This study explores whether and how childhood adversity, wealth and education of maternal caregivers are associated with the outcome of at least one child living on the street in semi-rural Kenya. Data showed significant relationships between household and maternal adverse circumstances and street migration of children. Interventions to end childhood adversities in the present generation… View Article

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A case for integrated development: pathways to improve child well-being

Integrated programming, and specifically integrating economic strengthening, into programs for improved childhood wellbeing, may be essential to ending the generational cycle of poverty. Under the Supporting Transformation by Reducing Insecurity and Vulnerability with Economic Strengthening (STRIVE) project, value chain strengthening and savings groups were tested as interventions for improving childhood wellbeing. This article includes a… View Article

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Building HIV-sensitive social protection systems through the “Cash Plus Care” model: Findings from East and Southern Africa

December 22, 2016

The Cash Plus Care intervention started implementation in 2014 in Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia. The intervention aims to build the evidence for operational guidance needed on the linking HIV/AIDS services to national social protection programs. This fact sheet provides some key learning after 18 months of implementation including these common observations: (1) Cash transfers are… View Article

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Collecting and Reporting of Sex and Age-Disaggregated Data on Adolescents at the Sub-National Level

Sex and age disaggregated program data are often unavailable in national information systems for the adolescent cohort. This technical guidance from UNICEF guides countries through the process of collecting and reporting sub-national data on adolescents to inform program planning and implementation efforts. The document explains how to dig into available data sources and addresses their… View Article

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