The following report outlines lessons learned on the future of care and support for children infected and affected by HIV in India based on qualitative feedback from community representatives. It also discusses the data collected from Operational Research and the Midline Survey, and suggests tentative conclusions deriving from this data.
Read more »“This is the United Nations General Assembly resolution from February 2009, accepting the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children as an enhancement to the implemention of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. UN General assembly welcomes the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children,as a set of orientations to help to inform… View Article
Read more »his latest edition of UNICEF’s Humanitarian Action Report highlights 28 of the most pressing crises. It explains how UNICEF is partnering with others to save lives and rebuild families and communities.
Read more »This informational guide was developed to provide additional knowledge to field workers on various issues connected to the process of communication skills and counselling, as well as provide case studies as reference to allow introspective application of the methods and for use in training.
Read more »We Stop AIDS is a participatory tool designed for low-literacy populations facilitates in-depth discussion around HIV and stimulates actions. After completing WSA, 180 idirs (traditional Ethiopian burial societies that help member’s families bury their dead) have started health promotion and social and development activities. Groups create goals for care of OVC, conduct home visits, and… View Article
Read more »“his Situation Analysis Report is part of a broader review and assessment of agricultural and livelihood-based social protection for orphans and other vulnerable children (OVC) programmes in Malawi that are deemed to have potential for replication and scaling up. The United Nations (UN) and Partners Alliance for livelihood-based social protection for OVC champions this initiative… View Article
Read more »“This manual was developed from the STOP AIDS NOW! Joint Learning Project in South Africa. It draws on the work of 4 partners around the meaningful involvement of young people. It introduces a tool for you to assess how meaningfully involved young people are in an organisation, and some ideas for how to increase their… View Article
Read more »Although the most effective approach to reducing pediatric HIV is by reducing mother-to-child transmission, for those born with HIV, chances of survival beyond the second year increase dramatically with diagnosis and treatment within the first year of life. This document, developed by the WHO, contains stand-alone treatment guidelines that serve as a framework for identifying… View Article
Read more »“The purpose of this document is to define WHO’s commitment to global and country support to scale up access to prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV services and integrate these services with maternal, newborn and child and reproductive health programmes. The objectives included in this PMTCT strategic vision 2010–2015 illustrate WHO’s ongoing commitment to… View Article
Read more »Many young children are left in the care of older siblings. As the primary caregiver, adolescent caregivers become responsible for their younger siblings’ needs, including physical, social, emotional, spiritual and intellectual needs. Adolescent caregivers are children themselves and, while looking after their younger siblings, have a double responsibility of also caring for their own health… View Article
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