Young People and HIV/AIDS: Opportunity in crisis
This report contains important new information about why young people are the key to defeating the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, including results from more than 60 new national surveys.
This report contains important new information about why young people are the key to defeating the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, including results from more than 60 new national surveys.
The aim of this case study was to document the effects of HIV/AIDS on the University of Nairobi personnel, operations and resource use. The study was of a descriptive nature and relied mostly on qualitative methodoloies such as interviews, group discussions and the analysis of documents.
This document provides an overview of the impact of HIV/AIDS on young people (aged 10-24) around the world. It uses a variety of sources and studies. However, it does not discuss mother-to-child-transmission, although this remains a major mode of transmission in some parts of the world.
This document begins by summarising the health and social problems of children living in a world of HIV/AIDS. The international response to the need of care systems for children affected by HIV/AIDS is also described. Other issues such as strategy development and systems design are explored.
The objective of this publication is to provide a compilation of various research findings on the impact of HIV/AIDS on education in countries south of the Sahara, which is the world's most infected region.
HIV is widely regarded as a disease of poverty and ignorance. However, within sub-Saharan Africa, more developed countries and sub-populations appear to have higher levels of HIV prevalence.
The purpose of this national assessment of children and families affected by HIV/AIDS is threefold: to review Mozambiques's overall programming and policy for orphans and other children made vulnerable by the AIDS epidemic, to identify opportunities for development of community-based respons
This paper confines its analysis primarily to issues of process, structure and content. Information was collected from government and agency documents and from respondents at national, provincial, district and schools level. The paper explores national structures and plans.
This study aims to contribute to the understanding of the problem of orphans and vulnerable children. It evaluates the impact of the crisis on the educational and nutritional status of orphans.
This document is a report of the African Leadership Consultation, which took place in Johannesburg, September 2002.