AIDS 5 years since ICPD: emerging issues and challenges for women, young people and infants
Since the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), the HIV/AIDS epidemic has worsened dramatically.
Since the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), the HIV/AIDS epidemic has worsened dramatically.
Zambia is experiencing a crisis of massive proportions due to AIDS, poverty and dwindling economic strength. Nearly three quarters of the Zambian people live in poverty. The HIV/AIDS epidemic is drastically impacting on the demographic, social and economic landscape in Zambia.
This document examines the way in which the AIDS epidemic is devastating the lives of children and adolescents throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
This report presents the perceptions, attitudes and experiences of higher risk teenagers toward HIV testing in intimate and often poignant detail.
This paper discusses the rights of children particularly in a world with HIV/AIDS. It explores how the way children affects the lives that they live. The thrust is on how to ensure that a child's rights are actually accessible to him/her through particular policies.
The socio-economic consequences of the HIV/AIDS epidemic are felt in a growing number of countries and increasing mortality rates among adults are threatening economic and social well-being.
The spread of HIV infection can be rapid in specific contexts such as poverty and social instability, war and civil strife.
This article discusses a psychosocial support program for children affected by AIDS for the SADC region which was proposed by REPPSI.
Children orphaned due to HIV/AIDS are those with broken families, beyond their control they are vulnerable to various kinds of survival and human rights problems. Their problems are so complex, multi-dimensional and very serious and have been increasing in the sub-Saharan Africa.