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1. Very young children affected and infected by HIV/AIDS: How are they living? A case study from Namibia

   This paper describes a recent study conducted jointly by the authors in the Khomas Region of Namibia. The study developed and trialled research and documentation methods regarding very young children who had been infected or affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Because of the stigma attached to the disease, effective methods for assessing ‘real’ needs of the target population have been elusive in Namibia and elsewhere. …

2. Foundation for the future: meeting the psychosocial needs of children living with HIV in Africa

   This technical brief describes promising practices in critical services related to the psychological and social well-being of perinatally-infected children (aged 0 to 12 years) in Africa. These include the identification, testing, and counseling of children so that they are linked to appropriate support as early as possible, as well as the provision of ongoing PSS to help children and their families manage disclosure, stigma, and grief and bereavement processes. …

3. Alimentação e nutrição para pessoas que vivem com HIV e Aids

   Esta Cartilha foi elaborada pelo Programa Nacional de DST e Aids e Coordenação Geral de Alimentação e Nutrição do Ministério da Saúde, a partir de vários documentos de referência e contou a colaboração de profissionais da área de Nutrição e HIV/Aids de serviços e redes de apoio do país. …

4. Recomendações para Terapia Antirretroviral em crianças e adolescentes infectados pelo HIV - Suplemento 1

   Em 2009, o Departamento de DST, Aids e Hepatites Virais do Ministério da Saúde publicou a nova edição das Recomendações para Terapia Antirretroviral em Crianças e Adolescentes Infectados pelo HIV com atualizações do manejo clínico dessa população, introduzindo novos capítulos com temas relevantes para a assistência, entre eles: cuidado integral, abordagem da adesão à terapia antirretroviral, revelação diagnóstica e o adolescente vivendo com HIV/aids. …

5. The National Guidelines for the Management of HIV and AIDS in Children in Nepal

   These Guidelines aim to provide up-to-date, evidence based, practical information and knowledge designed to help health service providers to make informed decisions on the management of HIV and AIDS in children and to gain basic knowledge about HIV and AIDS in the pediatric age group. The guidelines are mainly based on algorithms with annotations and reflect international best practice. …

6. Therapeutic Education: Recommendations Regarding Disclosure of HIV Status to Children under ARV in MSF Projects

   Therapeutic Education: Recommendations Regarding Disclosure of HIV Status to Children under ARV in MSF Projects is a document developed by Médecins sans frontières, in 2005. It focuses particularly upon the objectives and means of disclosure of pediatric HIV. The general objective in the care of HIV in the child could be defined as the following: To help the child to grow and develop despite his illness, and to live as well as possible, through a structured and structuring care environment. …

7. Literature review on poverty and HIV/AIDS: measuring the social and economic impacts on households

   This paper examines the social and economic impact of poverty and HIV/AIDS on households. Central to understanding the social and economic impact of poverty and HIV is to understand what goes on in the household that is affected by the disease. This paper tries to understand the dynamics that arise when the household is HIV affected. As much as HIV/AIDS exacerbates poverty through morbidity and mortality of productive adults, poverty facilitates the transmission of HIV. …