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Prevent and protect: Linking the HIV and child protection response to keep children safe, healthy & resilient

Living with or being affected by HIV makes children more susceptible to abuse, neglect, and exploitation; being more susceptible to violence puts children at greater risk for HIV infection. This circular pattern demonstrates why it is critical that child protection and OVC actors collaborate in order to improve each other’s outcomes This summary of findings… View Article

Strategies for Identifying and Linking HIV-Infected Infants, Children, and Adolescents to HIV Care and Treatment

Roughly 75% of infants who do not receive ART will die before their 5th birthday; however, results suggest that only three out of ten children who are eligible for treatment receive it. Treatment coverage for children living with HIV is unacceptably low, thus highlighting the critical need to identify and diagnose children as the first… View Article

Together we can! Promoting intentional linkages between children’s HIV programming and child protection system strengthening.

“REPSSI Regional Psychosocial Support Initiative 2015 Forum in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. September 1, 2015, 15:30 pm-17:00 pm, Kazuma Room This session was moderated by Kelley Bunkers, Child Protection and Welfare Systems Technical Director, 4Children. The session was a follow up to the 2013 PSS Forum, where the 2013 UNICEF, IATT, World Vision document Building Protection… View Article

Savings Groups and their Role in Child Wellbeing: A Primer for Donors

This document incorporates findings from recent impact evaluations and other research on savings groups with promising practices from field implementation. The document draws on research from the STRIVE (Supporting Transformation by Reducing Insecurity and Vulnerability with Economic Strengthening) program, as well as from other projects. STRIVE is an associate award under the FIELD-Support Leader with… View Article

Comprehensive Care: Linking Evidence to Action

This interpretive study examines the experiences of 54 Ethiopian emerging adults who had aged out of institutional care facilities. Findings are derived from interviews and focus groups in which questions and activities focused on the challenges faced by participants and the supports they relied on throughout the transition process. These young adults reported facing many… View Article

Enabling Education Review

How poverty and stigma are hindering HIV treatment for Uganda’s adolescents

“Photo Credit: Nell Freeman for International HIV/AIDS Alliance By Esther Wamala It is a sad fact that in rural areas of Uganda, people living with HIV cannot easily interact with other community members. A parent of an HIV positive child often has a hard time leaving him or her with a neighbour. If a neighbour… View Article

How we talk about Early Childhood Development

“What we talk about when we talk about Early Childhood Development Every editorial and/or blog on early childhood development (ECD) is fundamentally the same. The formula goes roughly like this: science shows us that the years between pre-natal and eight are the most crucial for success in school and life. The benefits of a child… View Article

Strengthening Economic Opportunities for Vulnerable Girls and Their Families: Programmatic Recommendations

Adolescent girls in sub-Saharan Africa are three to five times more likely to be infected with HIV than boys of the same age. The Go Girls! Initiative (GGI), an HIV prevention operations research project in Botswana, Malawi, and Mozambique, was inspired by this severe gender disparity in HIV infection and was designed to address those… View Article

TIME TO STEP-UP: PRIORITIZE CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS, FAMILIES AND CARERS AFFECTED BY AIDS IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA

Ending the HIV pandemic is possible, but to do so, we must act quickly and recognize that the needs of children—the most vulnerable among us and unable to advocate on their own behalf—include but go beyond ending the spread of HIV and finding a cure. For children, urgent steps are required including: better integrating strategies to reach this population into regional and… View Article