Children affected by HIVAIDS

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Children affected by HIV/AIDS

• Orphans and other vulnerable children (OVC)

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A child made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS is below the
age of 18 and

• has lost one or both parents, or
• has a chronically ill parent
• lives in a household where in the past 12 months
  at least one adult died and was sick for three of
  the 12 months before he/she died, or
• lives in a household where at least one adult was
  seriously ill for at least three months in the
  past 12 months, or
• lives outside of family care (i.e., lives in an
  institution or on the streets).

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Services Currently Being Provided to Orphans
and Other Vulnerable Children

• Globally, a wide range of services are currently
  being provided for OVC.
• Unfortunately, coverage is often extremely low
  and programme quality poor.
• Please note that
• this is not an exhaustive list
• there is no one right way to categorise the
  different types of services
• there is sometimes overlap among the services
  (and categories) shown
• the list includes some policy, administrative and
  management measures which may not be services per
  se, but which are nevertheless vital to the
  response.

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Categories of Services/Activities

• Policy and Programme Management
• Community Mobilisation
• General Care and Housing
• Formal Education and School-Based Programmes
• Health Care
• Psychosocial Support
• Financial
• Protection
• Training and Capacity Building

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Policy and Programme Management Activities

• Identifying orphans and vulnerable children
  (including conducting OVC censuses)
• Establishing databases to help provide services
  and monitor trends in this population
• Drafting national policies and guidelines on the
  management of OVC
• Establishing or strengthening case management
  structures
• Recruiting volunteers or paying community
  caregivers to provide services
• Establishing OVC committees and networks
• Developing OVC-related ME plans and systems
• Organising periodic OVC stakeholder meetings
• Documenting and disseminating best practices
• Creating local advocacy committees
• Conducting needs analyses and assessments

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Community Mobilisation Activities

• Organising community meetings and workshops
• Sensitising communities to OVC-related issues
• Mobilising communities to take action
• Utilising community care initiatives as a
  platform for delivery of a range of services,
  typically through trained volunteer caregivers

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General Care and Housing Activities

• Providing foster care
• Providing families with the tools they need to
  provide care to OVC
• Arranging for adoption
• Operating day care centres
• Conducting home visits to ensure that the needs
  of OVC are being adequately met
• Establishing independent living programmes
• Providing short-term shelter and care centres
• Providing institutional care (including
  orphanages)

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Formal Education and School-Based Programmes

• Encouraging school enrolment
• Providing free uniforms and other clothing
• Providing school supplies
• Organising professional development programmes
• Providing apprenticeships and vocational training

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Health Care

• Providing ARVs and treatments for opportunistic
  infections (i.e., paediatric treatment) for
  HIV-positive children
• Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
  (PMTCT) of HIV
• Providing routine health care
• Providing immunizations
• Providing equipment and medical supplies

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Food and Nutrition

• Establishing feeding programmes
• Providing nutritional supplementation programmes
• Providing seeds and other materials so that
  families with OVC can grow their own food (and
  income-generating crops)

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Psychosocial Support

• Providing counselling to OVC and their caregivers
  
• Organising support groups
• Providing entertainment (e.g., songs, plays)
• Organising community activities
• Providing spiritual support

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Financial Activities

• Providing orphan allowances
• Providing child support grants and foster grants
  to caregivers
• Organising income-generating programmes
• Organising micro-finance and micro-credit
  programmes for caregivers and OVC of working age
• Providing clothing, shoes, uniforms and other
  donations
• Providing subsidies and cash grants to families
  or households with OVC
• Providing financial incentives to community child
  protection workers and others caring for OVC

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Prevention and General Awareness and Education

• Delivering HIV and STI prevention programmes
• Providing sexual and reproductive health
  education
• Organising anti-stigma education and awareness
  campaigns
• Conducting life skills education
• Developing basic language materials describing
  OVC issues and services

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Protection

• Establishing or reinforcing child protection
  programmes, including interventions in cases of
  child abuse
• Providing programmes on inheritance and
  succession planning
• Drafting or strengthening legislation for the
  protection of OVC
• Strengthening child-friendly judicial systems
• Providing legal services

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Training and Capacity Building Activities

• Training officials and others on OVC programme
  management
• Training law and policy makers on OVC issues
• Training OVC guardians
• Training caregivers on OVC service provision
• Training social workers and child protection
  workers on child protection issues
• Training families and community members on income
  generation
• Preparing OVC to represent their own needs and
  concerns and to participate in national strategic
  planning and implementation
• Improving the capacity of lead government
  agencies responsible for implementing national
  OVC strategies
• Improving the capacity of NGOs and CBOs to better
  coordinate and scale up the provision of services
  to OVC

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National Policies and Plans Concerning Orphans
and Other Vulnerable Children

• Each National Plan of Action is structured
  differently.
• However, they all contain most or all of the
  following elements
• goals and/or objectives
• activities
• timelines
• implementing agencies
• budget and budget rationale
• indicators and an ME plan

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Developing Global Fund Proposalsto Benefit
ChildrenAffected by HIV/AIDS

• Funding is allocated to disease prevention,
  treatment, care and support.
• Funded activities include both the piloting of
  new and innovative programmes and the scaling up
  of existing interventions.

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What Kinds of Programmes Will the Global Fund
Support?Criteria for proposal review

• Proposals should demonstrate a sound approach
• Proposals should demonstrate feasibility
• Proposals should demonstrate potential for
  sustainability

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In 2003, the United States Agency for
International Development (USAID), UNICEF, UNAIDS
and a number of other agencies collaborated to
develop A Framework for The Protection, Care, and
Support of Orphans and Vulnerable Children Living
in a World with HIV and AIDS

• The five strategies mentioned in the Framework
  Document are
• Strengthen the capacity of families to protect
  and care for orphans and other vulnerable
  children by prolonging the lives of parents and
  providing economic, psychosocial and other
  support.
• Mobilise and support community-based responses.
• Ensure access for orphans and other vulnerable
  children to essential services, including
  education, health care and birth registration.
• Ensure that governments protect the most
  vulnerable children through improved policy and
  legislation, and by channelling resources to
  families and communities.
• Raise awareness at all levels through advocacy
  and social mobilisation to create a supportive
  environment for children and families affected by
  HIV/AIDS.