An assessment: the situation of children made vulnerable or orphaned in Guyana
The social and economic factors contributing to children of Guyana becoming orphaned or made vulnerable have been cause for major concern.
The social and economic factors contributing to children of Guyana becoming orphaned or made vulnerable have been cause for major concern.
The meeting, which lasted one day and a half, was divided into three main sessions. In the first session, participants offered their views and experiences on available response strategies to the challenge of orphans and vulnerable children after listening to three presentations on the topic.
The study investigates HIV/AIDS as a development challenge in South Africa.
Cambodia is among the countries most severely affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Asia. In 2003, an estimated 123,100 adults in Cambodia were living with HIV/AIDS and 60,000 children were affected by HIV/AIDS.
This report is designed for policy makers and program managers and is essentially an informative advocacy document.
AIDS, conflicts, and other crises have swelled the number of orphans in much of Sub-Saharan Africa, thereby threatening realization of the Millennium Development Goals in the areas of education, health, nutrition, and poverty reduction.
This report finds that, compared to the situation 20 years ago, young people are entering adolescence in better health and reaching puberty earlier. They are also more likely to attend school, more likely to postpone entering the labor force, and more likely to delay marriage and childbearing.
Discusses findings from a study that examined how to involve youth in the care and support of people living with HIV/AIDS and orphans and vulnerable children.
This paper examines the literature on how HIV/AIDS has impacted teachers and other education personnel in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d`Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria and Senegal.
Released in July 2004, Community Operated Youth Centres in Myanmar is published as part of a series entitled Lessons Learned, which aims at documenting and disseminating lessons learned from projects with good and promising practices.