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This is paper is a presentation on the vulnerability of youth to HIV/AIDS based on statistics and the risk factors that increase their vulnerability to the epidemic. It offers different policies and strategies to aid policy makers in risk reduction.
This document forms Volume One of six volumes which explore different aspects of the Situation of Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Zambia in 1999.
This document uses the ED-SIDA model to measure the impact of HIV/AIDS on the teaching population. The model captures the dynamicsof teacher population in terms of recruitment, retirement, leaving before retirement, HIV infection and death using difference equations based yearly time steps. The paper presents the economic implications of HIV/AIDS for the Zambian ministry of Education and the donors working on BESSIP.
This a review of the SCOPE OVC Project in Zambia. The main objective of the project has been to strengthen community led initiatives and establish community based and led reponses to OVCs. This is inrecognition of the fact that community led initiatives are likley to have long lasting impact within communities. …
This report documents an assessment of UNICEF Programming in Zambia for Children and Children Affected by HIV/AIDS. This was in response to the publication of Children on the Brink which represented a "wake up call" for the international development community on several levels. Following this report, UNICEF Headquarters' management team decided to evaluate and intensify its programming efforts in this area. …
This report is derived from the initiatives and key results identified by UNICEF with regards to support for orphans in the southern African region. UNICEF has been designated lead agency among the UNAIDS co-sponsors for programmes in support of orphans. An effort to conduct national-level rapid assessments of the orphan problem in 13 countries in the region was completed in 1999. UNICEF and other partners sponsored a much more complete study of the problem in Zambia in 1999, resulting in a report that should be widely read for its analysis of the many facets of this crisis.
This case study focuses on Zambia's Lusaka and Southern Provinces and the views of teachers and pupils of that region with regards to the teaching of HIV/AIDS in basic education. It is limited to the efforts being made by the Ministry of Education (MOE) in Zambia on fighting the spread of the disease among school children and teachers.
This report examines and analyses the Institutional Response to the Situation of Orphans in Zambia. Institutions analysed include NGOs, international governments and social institutions like the church. This report serves as one component of a larger Situation Analysis of Orphans in Zambia being managed by the Study Fund of the Social Recovery Project on behalf of UNICEF, SIDA and USAID, under the guidance of a Steering Committee that draws its membership form Government, NGOs, donors, UN agencies and researchers.
The objectives of the data review and enumeration exercise were to: 1. Assess the current magnitude of orphans; 2. Effectively analyse existing quantitative data; 3. Understand the relationship between the loss of one or both parents on socio-economic and welfare factors. 4. Suggest some welfare indicators for monitoring and evaluation purposes. The exercise compares the welfare of orphans and that of non-orphans in Zambia using survey livelihood indicators for poverty, residence, food security, education and health.
This study forms part of, and contributes to, the Situation Analysis of Orphans in Zambia. The overall aim of the study is to understand the current situation of orphaned children in Zambia. This part of the study looks at the situation of orphans from the point of view of the communities and the orphans themselves. Understanding the perceptions of these will strengthen and improve strategies which aim to address the needs of communities dealing with orphans.
This report forms one component of a Situation Analysis of Orphans in Zambia, commissioned by the Study Fund of the Social Recovery Project on behalf of UNICEF, SIDA and USAID. This part of the study assesses the practices for care and support of orphans and vulnerable children in Zambia.
The Tonga of Southern Zambia usually refer to a traditional disease, Kahungo, when talking about AIDS. Such an association of AIDS with a traditional disease could easily be interpreted as a cultural obstacle to an understanding of AIDS and thus to a change of behaviour. However, a close investigation shows that this association is not the result of categorical thinking, but rather of narrative logic. What people are actually articulating when they associate AIDS with kahungo is a narrative about order, disorder and respect for existing rules and values of the society. …
