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1. Summary booklet of best practices in Africa

   This booklet attempts to capture details of a range of Best Practices in order to provide useful lessons and offer references for all actors of the International Partnership against AIDS in Africa (IPAA.)

2. Listen, learn, live : 1999 World AIDS campaign with children and young people

   This resource package contains four brochures dealing with: 1) key issues and ideas for action; 2) children and HIV; 3) young people and HIV; and 4) facts and figures. The package (a 1999 World AIDS campaign document) focuses on communication with children and young people, raising awareness about the need to listen to children and young people and strengthening AIDS programmes for children and young people.

3. Conférence internationale sur les implications du SIDA pour la mère et l'enfant : allocutions et présentations techniques, Paris, 27-30 novembre 1989

   This report of an international conference on the implications of AIDS for mothers and children looks at different interventions. Several areas are covered: 1) clinical costs; 2) HIV and pregnancy diagnosis; 3) implications for the social sectors including health, education, welfare; and 4) the economic and demographic impact. It also reviews the "Paris Declaration on Women, Children and AIDS".

4. Rural children living in farm systems affected by HIV/AIDS: some issues for the rights of the children on the basis of FAO HIV/AIDS studies in Africa

   The objective of this paper is to analyse the situation of children that are infected or affected by HIV/AIDS and that live in farm-households in Africa. The questions raised are: Are rural children living in "exceptionally difficult conditions" and what are their future prospects? Do they receive the special consideration they need on the basis of available resources? Have they been discriminated against? The paper presents some information extracted from FAO studies which shed light on elements for response.

5. Counselling and HIV/AIDS

   HIV counseling is an important component of HIV/AIDS prevention. Evaluations from Uganda and Rwanda demonstrated this. Yet, there is a reluctance among some decision-makers and service managers to give HIV counseling its proper due as a discipline through which trained practitioners can produce measurable useful results. It is under-resourced and not fully appreciated.

6. AIDS 5 years since ICPD: emerging issues and challenges for women, young people and infants

   Since the International Conference on Population and Development (), the HIV/AIDS epidemic has worsened dramatically. Looking at what has transpired since the ICPD conference, this report discusses the particular vulnerability of women, children and young people to HIV and describes strategies that have been developed to meet their needs. It looks at work in-progress and future challenges. From lessons learned, it identifies successful approaches to HIV prevention.

7. What Can We Do to Make a Difference?: Situation Analysis Concerning Children and Families Affected by Aids

   This article discusses the importance of situation analysis in the process of formulating interventions for children and families affected by HIV/AIDS. The argument is that for interventions to be effective and resources to be well used, it is essential that interventions are developed with a clear understanding of the factors which are most significant and how they relate to each other in causing or mitigating problems. It is well argued how situation analysis and ongoing monitoring are essental to planning and implementing effective interventions.

8. The role of stigma and discrimination in increasing the vulnerability of children and youth with and affected by HIV/AIDS

   This report clearly illustrates the powerful and negative effects of stigma on those affected by HIV/AIDS. The stories from children are particularly powerful and impacting. This report aims to put across the message that combating HIV/AIDS requires a strong and coordinated reponse from all sectors of society.

9. Developing Interventions to Benefit Children and Families Affected by HIV/AIDS: A review of the COPE

   The purpose of this review is to evaluate the progress of the COPE Program implemented in Malawi in reponse to the needs of children and families affected by HIV/AIDS. COPE's main aim was to increase household income in recognition of the relationship between poverty and AIDS.The program had an elaborate management information system to measure needs as well as its activities and impacts.

10. Humiliza / terre des hommes Switzerland : Manual Psycho-social Support of Children Affected by AIDS

    This manual is aimed at providing some guidance in the area of psychosocial support of Children Affected by AIDS. This is in realisation of the fact that this is a major and often neglected aspect in the fight against the pandemic.

11. Developing a strategy to strengthen community capacity to assist HIV/AIDS-affected children and families: the COPE Program of Save the Children Federation in Malawi,

    The purpose of this report is to develop an intervention strategy that can be utilized by external change agents to mobilize sustainable, effective community action to mitigate the impacts of HIV/AIDS on children and families

12. Risky behaviour: Can education help?

    This paper summarises findings from Malawi regarding transactional sex between young girls and older men and offers a list of possible contributing factors. Possible actions for mitigating focus on highlighting the issue in communities, provisions of alternative education, and increasing lifeskills education (including teacher training)

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