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Report card. HIV prevention for girls and young women: Mozambique
This report card aims to provide a summary of HIV prevention for girls and young women in Mozambique.
National plans of action for orphans and vulnerable children in sub-Saharan Africa. Where are the youngest children?
In 2005, an estimated 48 million children aged 0-18 years, that is to say 12 percent of all children in sub-Saharan Africa, were orphans, and that number is expected to rise to 53 million by 2010.
OVC Programmes in South Africa funded by the U.S. president's emergency plan for AIDS relief. Summary report for 32 case studies
Despite the magnitude and dire consequences of the growing number of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in South Africa, and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa, there is insufficient documentation of the strategies deployed to improve the well-being of these children.
Orphanhood and completion of compulsory school education among young people in South Africa: findings from a national representative survey
We examined the association of orphanhood and completion of compulsory school education among young people in South Africa. In South Africa, school attendance is compulsory through grade 9, which should be completed before age 16.
Report card. HIV prevention for girls and young women: Rwanda
This report card aims to provide a summary of HIV prevention for girls and young women in Rwanda.
OVC programming (orphans and other vulnerable children) including children affected by HIV and AIDS in West and Central Africa: Conceptual and programming gaps, progress in the response, challenges and the way forward
This is a working paper for discussion within the Regional Inter-Agency Task Team on Children Affected by HIV AIDS in the West and Central African Region (RIATT/CABA-WCAR).
Teachers for rural schools: experiences in Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda
Much is going well with the effort to provide universal primary education in Sub-Saharan Africa.
A possible future of HIV and AIDS management in the school education sector in South Africa
In South Africa HIV and Aids threaten the world of education if one only looks at prevalence rates. Approximately 5,41 million people in the country are living with HIV and Aids, of whom 257900 are children up to the age of 14.
Linking sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS. Gateways to integration: a case study from Kenya
The process of linking sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS needs to work in both directions: this means that traditional sexual and reproductive health services need to integrate HIV/AIDS interventions, and also that programmes set up to address the AIDS epidemic need to integrate more ge