This tools for care workers provides a step-by-step process to ethical decision making that allows for discussions on how decisions can be influenced by our environment, personal bias and judgement. These steps consider facts and ethical principles, as well as alternative approaches to difficult situations when caring for children and families affected by HIV/AIDS. This… View Article
Read more »“By Sidi Sarro This article was originally posted on the Key Correspondents website and can be found here. The defaulter’s club in Kenya is not like any other club – it is a growing movement of teenagers born with HIV who deliberately take ‘holidays’ from their life-saving medication. These young people are fed up with… View Article
Read more »“This article was originally featured on the Key Correspondents website. The original article can be found here. Ahead of this week’s 20th International AIDS Conference, experts have warned that children are being left behind in the goal to reach universal access to HIV treatment. Community workers and non-governmental organisations came together at the Children and… View Article
Read more »“Cuando se trata de cuidado y apoyo al VIH, la toma de mejores decisiones nos interesa a todos nosotros. Toma de decisiones éticas: Es importante para todas las personas con VIH, incluyendo los grupos clave y sus hijos; y Es importante para los proveedores de apoyo para la salud o servicios sociales que quieren tomar… View Article
Read more »This document provides an overview on the World Bank’s investments in early childhood development (ECD) from 2001-2013 within education; health, nutrition and population; and social protection and labor. This report summarizes trends in operational and analytical investments in ECD and presents findings on finances, the number of ECD investments and regional and sectoral risks. Included… View Article
Read more »These standards address case management as a specialty area within social work practice. The standards are designed to enhance social workers’ awareness of the values, knowledge, methods, and skills needed to practice case management competently. Ideally, these standards will stimulate the development of clear guidelines, goals, and objectives related to case management in social work… View Article
Read more »This review summarizes observation based recommendations for supporting and strengthening child-caregiver relationships in the context of HIV and AIDS and poverty. The review extracts general principals of best practices for family support and strengthening of child-caregiver relationships from broader research to facilitate discussions on contextually appropriate programming for parenting support of family units affected by HIV… View Article
Read more »The purpose of this brief is to detail the process of scaling up community-based child and youth care workers (CYCW) in South Africa. Reasoning for scale up, proposed quality regulations, plans for supporting this group of CYCWs, lessons learned and recommendations for designing similar scale-ups are discussed in length in this document. This technical brief… View Article
Read more »Violations against child protection negatively impact HIV outcomes, extenuating the need for the integration of response interventions specific to HIV and protection. This paper presents findings from a global literature review, key informant interviews, and a study commissioned by the Inter Agency Task Team on Children affected by HIV and AIDS. The purpose of the… View Article
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