Involving Young People in the Care and Support of People Living with HIV/AIDS in Zambia
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.
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 workshop aimed at bringing together a wide range of agencies working to provide care, compassion and preventive education to children vulnerable to HIV/AIDS in the Mekong sub-region in order to share lessons learned and draft an agenda for further action - both at the policy and legislative
Summarizes findings from an intervention study to increase use of and satisfaction with VCT services among youth.
This paper presents the work of Choose Life, a Zimbabwean NGO that works with young people in schools. Choose Life utilizes the power that HIV positive youth have in preventing further infections in their peers.
Recent evidence suggests that the burden of new HIV infections in developing countries is concentrated among young people and females.
Greater Involvement of People Infected and Affected by HIV/AIDS (GIPA) is a concept, which involves theoretical and practical principles to involve People Living with HIV and AIDS (PLHA) in various development activities at all levels.
The Ministry of Education (MINED) held a national seminar from 9-13th February 2004, in Maputo, at Joaquim Chissano Conference Center, with the objective of accelerating the sector's response to HIV/AIDS.
The catastrophe of HIV/AIDS (human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome) in Africa, which has already claimed over 18 million lives on that continent, has hit girls and women harder than boys and men.
Summarizes findings from a four-country, diagnostic study in Burkina Faso, Ecuador, Zambia, and Maharashtra State, India, that examined the conditions that foster the involvement of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) in NGO service delivery.
The purpose of the study was to analyse and provide an understanding of the present situation of orphaned children in the country.