COMPREHENSIVE CHILD FOCUSED HIV PROGRAMME

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• COMPREHENSIVE CHILD FOCUSED HIV PROGRAMME
• May 5th 2009

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Presentation Outline

• Education on HIV prevention
• Care and Support for children infected and
  affected by HIV and AIDS
• Impacts
• Sustainability
• Challenges

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BENEFICIARIES

• Beneficiaries
• OVC, children in out-of-school, under 18 years
  old.
• HIV AIDS infected and affected children
• Families having children infected/affected by HIV
  AIDS
• Volunteers, members of communities/ local
  authorities.
• Teachers, pupils parents association, mass
  organization

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HIV Prevention in out of Schools

• Objective
• Equip children in the projects sites with
  information and skills to protect themselves from
  HIV infection.
• Results year 2008
• Project reached 21,690 children in 14 schools and
  14 communes of 7 districts via 365 PEs
• Approach
• Child to child /Peer Education in schools and in
  commune
• Clubs of peer educators
• Inter wards, Inter school play Grounds
• Celebrity talk on HIV and AIDS, sex education
• Children raise their voice to influence policy
  makers

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Care and Support for Children Infected and
Affected by HIV/AIDS

• Objective
• Provide children infected and affected by HIV
  and AIDS with access to care and support services
  in the community to ensure fulfillment of their
  basic rights
• Results year 2008
• Project reached 1800 HIV and AIDS affected
  children and 40 infected children via 127 Care
  and support volunteers

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Approaches

• Set up groups of families
• Groups of children
• Outreach by care and support volunteers
• Supports implemented

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Types of support

• Schooling/Apprenticeship
• Health care referral
• Payment for medicines not paid by health
  insurance
• Birth/Residential certificates
• Milk/Food formula
• Support children to access to governments
  subsidy
• Cash transfer to caregivers/ loans
• ARV adherence
• Psychosocial support via home visit
• Medicine cabinet for families
• Job training (children tailoring, motor bike
  repair. Cooking, motor bike washing).

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Contribution of Prevention to Care and Support

• Increase peoples understanding on HIV related
  issues via IEC sessions
• Improving understanding on HIV related issues for
  School teachers, parents
• Reduction of stigma and discrimination against
  HIV and AIDS via education therefore increasing
  integration of children I/A into community

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IMPACTS

• Set up child to child communication on HIV
  prevention
• Established comty based care and support for
  children infected and affected (I/A) by HIV and
  AIDS
• Families of children I/A shared their
  responsibilities with society n caring children
  affected
• Closely co-operation of all of the agencies in
  community to support children I/A
• Community have better understanding on childrens
  rights
• Children had opportunity to participate in
  project cycle
• Community was aware of their ownership in project

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Sustainabilty

• Contribution from locality is clearly identified
  in planning at the beginning
• Work closely with existing HIV prevention network
  of government
• Train community based care volunteers
• Set up groups of care givers for capacity
  building
• Connect with the HIV related services in the area
  (Paediatric /hospital, PLWA)
• Facilitate care givers to approach government
  policies

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Challenges

• Allowance for volunteers/ project implementers of
  other projects in the area
• Accessible to government policies
• Changes of government staff who are involved in
  the project management