Protecting Childhood in the AIDS Pandemic
Title | Protecting Childhood in the AIDS Pandemic PDF eBook |
Author | Jody Heymann |
Publisher | OUP USA |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2012-02-20 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 019976512X |
Protecting Childhood in the AIDS Pandemic provides lessons from experts around the world on how to transform the outcomes of children affected by HIV/AIDS. It examines which public policies and programs best meet the full range of children's needs, from medical care to social support and from infancy to adolescence.
A Call to Action
Title | A Call to Action PDF eBook |
Author | Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. |
Publisher | UNICEF |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9280639269 |
AIDS is threatening children as never before. Millions of them are missing their childhood, medicines, education, information and a host of other essentials due to the disease. Yet they are often overlooked in AIDS programmes, policies and budgets. The Unite for Children. Unite against AIDS Campaign, a global effort by UNICEF, UNAIDS and a multiplicity of other partners, aims to accelerate action to help those at risk of HIV infection, and those already infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. Through four focus areas - prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, providing paediatric treatment, preventing infection among adolescents and young people, and protecting and supporting children affected by AIDS, the Campaign aims to ensure that this is the last generation of children that bears the burden of AIDS.
Protecting Children with Cancer Or HIV from Communicable Diseases
Title | Protecting Children with Cancer Or HIV from Communicable Diseases PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 20 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Communicable diseases in children |
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Crying for Our Elders
Title | Crying for Our Elders PDF eBook |
Author | Kristen E. Cheney |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2017-03-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 022643768X |
The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa has defined the childhoods of an entire generation. Over the past twenty years, international NGOs and charities have devoted immense attention to the millions of African children orphaned by the disease. But in Crying for Our Elders, anthropologist Kristen E. Cheney argues that these humanitarian groups have misread the ‘orphan crisis’. She explains how the global humanitarian focus on orphanhood often elides the social and political circumstances that actually present the greatest adversity to vulnerable children—in effect deepening the crisis and thereby affecting children’s lives as irrevocably as HIV/AIDS itself. Through ethnographic fieldwork and collaborative research with children in Uganda, Cheney traces how the “best interest” principle that governs children’s’ rights can stigmatize orphans and leave children in the post-antiretroviral era even more vulnerable to exploitation. She details the dramatic effects this has on traditional family support and child protection and stresses child empowerment over pity. Crying for Our Elders advances current discussions on humanitarianism, children’s studies, orphanhood, and kinship. By exploring the unique experience of AIDS orphanhood through the eyes of children, caregivers, and policymakers, Cheney shows that despite the extreme challenges of growing up in the era of HIV/AIDS, the post-ARV generation still holds out hope for the future.
A Generation at Risk
Title | A Generation at Risk PDF eBook |
Author | John Williamson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2005-09-12 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1139445219 |
With a Foreword by Desmond Tutu, Generation at Risk brings insightful perspectives from experienced practitioners and researchers on how a better future can be secured for the millions of children who are being orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. The current situation of these children is grim, and while there has been significant action by governments, international organizations, religious bodies, and non-governmental organizations, the vast majority of children made vulnerable by AIDS have not benefited from any assistance beyond their own extended family and community. A Generation at Risk explains in straightforward terms what is required to fill this gap. The book addresses what needs to be done in the areas of education, community mobilization and capacity building, economic strengthening at household and community levels, psychosocial support, and the protection of children and the fulfilment of their rights.
The Socio-legal Perspective of Child Protection in Cameroon
Title | The Socio-legal Perspective of Child Protection in Cameroon PDF eBook |
Author | Rabiatu Ibrahim Danpullo |
Publisher | Presses univresitaires d'Afr |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Abused children |
ISBN | 9956444472 |
Social Protection for Africa’s Children
Title | Social Protection for Africa’s Children PDF eBook |
Author | Sudhanshu Handa |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2010-10-04 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1136908390 |
Social protection is an increasingly important part of the social policy dialogue in Africa, and yet because of its relatively new place in a rapidly evolving agenda, evidence on critical design choices such as targeting, and on impacts of social protection interventions, is mostly limited to case studies or small, unrepresentative surveys. This impressive collection makes a major contribution to building the evidence base, drawing on rigorous analysis of social protection programmes in several African countries, as well as original research and thinking on key topical issues in the social protection discourse. Social Protection for Africa’s Children is divided into four parts. The first presents economic and human-rights based right arguments for social protection as an integral part of the social policy menu in Africa. This is followed by a part on targeting, which highlights some of the key policy trade-offs faced when deciding between alternative target groups. The third part presents rigorous quantitative evidence on the impact of social cash transfers on children from programmes in South Africa, Malawi and Ethiopia and the final part addresses a set of issues related to social justice and human rights. This book significantly advances existing knowledge about social protection for children in Africa, both conceptually and empirically. It makes a strong case for social protection interventions that address the short term (amelioration) and long term (structural) needs of children, and shows that programming in this sector for children is both feasible and achievable. Policy makers and practitioners in this sector will have, in this book, the theoretical and empirical evidence necessary to advance social protection for Africa’s children in the decades to come. Furthermore, this book should be an essential resource to postgraduates and students focussing on development economics in Africa.