Family and Community Interventions for Children Affected by AIDS

Section one
1. Introduction

2. The impact of HIV/AIDS on children, families and communities

3. Community-based approaches to caring for children affected by HIV/AIDS

4. Orphan registration programmes

5. Facilitating access to adequate nutrition and healthcare

6. Facilitating access to education

7. Addressing children’s emotional needs

8. Protecting children

9. Community mobilisation and micro-finance

10. The role of government
10.1 The role of the private sector

11. Monitoring and evaluation of support efforts

12. Intervention-linked research

13. General programme approach

Appendix

Responses developed by stakeholders to meet OVC’s needs for OVC living in family-like settings

Interventions to improve the financial situation of families fostering OVC

Risks and interventions to help families meet OVC’s basic needs

References

Section two
Annotated bibliography

Prof. Linda Richter is Executive Director of the Child, Youth and Family Development research programme of the HSRC. She is also the Chair of Psychology and an elected Fellow of the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She holds an honorary professorship in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and is a consultant in the HIV Prevention Trials Unit at the Medical Research Council, Durban.