[procaare] Pre-6th HCC Theme 2: Children - Infected or Affected by HIV/AIDS

[HDN/ProCAARE Moderation Team <procaare@healthnet.org>]

Pre-6th HCC Structured Discussion Theme 2 - Children: Infected or Affected 
by HIV/AIDS
- HDN/ProCAARE Moderation Team & 6th HCC
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"Today, more than 13 million children currently under age 15 have lost one 
or both parents to AIDS, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa. By 2010, this 
number is expected to jump to more than 25 million.

While the impact of this loss of life differs across families, communities 
and societies, one thing is clear, a child's life often falls apart when 
he or she loses a parent. Even in countries where institutional care is 
relatively extensive, orphanages provide only for a very small portion of 
all vulnerable children."

[from Children on the Brink (2002; USAID, UNICEF, and UNAIDS)]

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Dear ProCAARE Members,

The second topic for the HIV/AIDS Home and Community Care pre-conference 
discussions focuses on:

"Children: Infected or affected by HIV/AIDS"

Next, you shall receive the introduction posting, contributed by Noerine 
Kaleeba.

In order to launch this discussion, we are going to focus on one extract 
from the document quoted above: Children on the Brink (2002), and ask two 
questions as follows:

"Communities with a high proportion of orphans require urgent assistance. 
Responses need to be focused and scaled up in communities with high 
proportions of orphans and other children affected by HIV/AIDS. Because 
they are at the center of the crisis, these communities are the most 
overstretched."

In Noerine's article that follows, several examples of local strategies 
and initiatives to provide community-based responses to meet the needs of 
children and families affected by AIDS are described.

DO YOU KNOW of other success stories or conclusions that can be shared 
with others and that maybe used elsewhere?

DO YOU HAVE your own perspectives or experiences of children as AIDS 
caregivers; as orphans; as HIV+; or simply as children - in a world with 
AIDS?

If so, please send them to:

procaare@usa.healthnet.org

As with other discussions taking place in this series, contributions will 
be summarised and channelled into the Dakar 2003 Conference on Home and 
Community-based Care.


We look foward to receiving your contributions.

HDN/ProCAARE Moderation Team
E-mail: procaare@usa.healthnet.org

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