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Interventions are needed to support parents and caregivers on taking care of children living with HIV. Needs include information and training as well as combating stigma and discrimination against HIV-positive children.
Women and Girls
1 study
HIV/AIDS programming should also reach young children. A review found that despite the impact of investing in early childhood interventions, few HIV/AIDS programs exist for young children.
Orphans and Vulnerable Children
1 study
Interventions are needed to assist parents dying of AIDS with planning for the future well-being of their children. [See also %{s:61}] Studies found that many parents dying from AIDS had not written wills nor provided custody arrangements for their children.
Orphans and Vulnerable Children
1 study
Additional research is needed on disease progression among children and adolescents who acquired HIV as infants.
Increasing Access to Services
1 study
Programs are needed that link interventions addressing HIV/AIDS and child abuse. One report found that no PEP access guidelines exist for children who were raped and were under the age of 14. Other studies found high risk behavior among those who had been sexually abused as children.
Addressing Violence Against Women
1 study
Interventions are needed to support women living with HIV to disclose their serostatus to their children and families. Studies found that HIV-positive women found it extremely difficult to disclose their serostatus to their children and to their families and wanted specific counseling to address this need. A study also found that women wanted support on how to talk to their children about the loss of a sibling from AIDS.
Women and Girls
1 study
Further interventions to provide support programs, including counseling, are needed for AIDS-orphaned children and their caregivers to combat depression, social isolation and stigma. Studies found that AIDS orphans reported insufficient food, depression and stigma.
Orphans and Vulnerable Children
1 study
Programs should encourage male involvement in children’s treatment and orphan care. A systematic review and several studies found that fathers are often overlooked in orphan care when the mother has died.
Orphans and Vulnerable Children
1 study
Interventions are needed for school children that suffer from violence on the way to or at school. [See also %{s:59}] Studies found that girls suffer from violence both on the way and at school.
Advancing Education
1 study
Programs must adhere to the longstanding international agreement to voluntarism, informed consent, and ensuring the right of individuals and couples to decide freely and responsibly the number and spacing of their children. [See %{c:15}]
Preventing Unintended Pregnancies
1 study
Improved and timely access to antiretrovirals is needed for orphans. A study found that orphans were more likely to be at WHO clinical stage 4, and need timely treatment initiation.
Orphans and Vulnerable Children
1 study
Further interventions are needed to help female OVCs reduce risky sexual behaviors and protect them from sexual violence. [See %{c:9}]
Orphans and Vulnerable Children
1 study
NGO and government interventions must take care not to create dependence on externally funded services and decrease the community’s sense of responsibility for OVC. An evaluation of programs providing services to orphans found that because of NGO interventions, communities believed they had no responsibilities towards caregivers and orphans.
Orphans and Vulnerable Children
1 study
Interventions are needed for street youths who have high rates of HIV and intravenous drug use. A systematic, community-based, multicity assessment of street youth in Ukraine, of whom a quarter were girls, found high rates of HIV and low condom use and high rates of sharing needles, especially among orphans and who were injecting drug users.
Orphans and Vulnerable Children
1 study
Interventions are needed to support women living with HIV to reduce infant abandonment. Studies found that families forced women living with HIV to abandon their infants; some due to erroneous fears that the infant could transmit HIV.
Orphans and Vulnerable Children
1 study
Increased financial and other support is needed for adults, especially grandparents, caring for orphans, including those who are HIV-positive. Studies found families caring for orphans lacked adequate food and nutrition and reported financial difficulties in meeting basic needs.
Orphans and Vulnerable Children
1 study
Interventions are urgently needed to help girls enroll (and stay) in school. [See also %{s:65}] Studies found that girls affected by HIV are more likely to be out of school, despite the protective factor of education in reducing the likelihood of HIV acquisition.
Orphans and Vulnerable Children
1 study
Clear policies and legislation supporting access to information and sexuality education are needed to reduce the risk of HIV transmission among young people. Studies found that sex education was lacking, particularly among street children who are at high risk of HIV acquisition.
Mitigating Risk
1 study
Further interventions are needed to reduce stigma and discrimination against women, specifically, who are at high risk or living with HIV. [See also %{s:45}] Studies found that women and girls are highly stigmatized if they test positive for HIV. Stigma impacts the HIV-positive woman, herself, as well as her children, her siblings and her family. Some providers also discriminate against those living with HIV.
Reducing Stigma and Discrimination
1 study
Efforts are needed to provide HIV prevention and services to children and adolescents aged 10 to 17 who sell sex. [See also Prevention for Young People: %{s:25}] A number of studies show that significant numbers of sex workers selling sex when they are under age 18 and these adolescents are at high risk of acquiring HIV and have numerous legal and policy barriers, such as fear of the police, needing a guardian over age 18 to access HIV testing and counseling, and forced detention, in trying to access services.
Female Sex Workers
1 study