AIDS 2008 will provide many opportunities for the presentation of important new scientific research and for productive, structured dialogue on the major challenges facing the global response to AIDS. Conference organizers are developing a wide variety of session types that meet the needs of various participants and support collective efforts to expand delivery of HIV prevention and treatment to communities worldwide. Central to many of these sessions will be the transfer of knowledge and sharing of best practices.
In addition to the conference sessions there are a number of activities, including satellite meetings, exhibitions, the Global Village and the Cultural Programme, that are integral to delegates’ experience at the conference.
Many proceedings of and materials from a range of sessions will be made available on the Conference website during and after the Conference.
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promising practices from its orphan and vulnerable children (OVC)
programming around the globe.
Who it is for: People interested in children, colleagues working in
organizations supporting orphans and vulnerable children around the
world, policy makers, and donors.
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This document provides guidance to governments, international organizations and NGOs in the monitoring and evaluation of the national response for children orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. It includes methods and tools for measurement at the national level.
USAID's Bureau for Africa organized a workshop on economic strengthening to improve the well-being of orphans and vulnerable children. The workshop brought together a diverse group of specialists with experince and expertise in the areas of economic strengthening and children's programming to determine how appropriate interventions can be developed and implemented on a scale that matches the impact of AIDS.
This guide offers a step-wise approach to conducting a situation analysis with orphans and vulnerable children in conjunction with social science expertise in quantitative and qualitative research methods.
The report documents outcomes from the Special Session on Children. It contains 21 specific goals and targets for improving the well being of children the next decade, and four key priorities: promoting healthy lives; providing quality education for all; protecting children against abuse, exploitation and violence; and combating HIV/AIDS.
CARE designed the "5x5 model" to illustrate and integrate critical early childhood needs into a simplified holistic and replicable program, capable of delivering early childhood development interventions in resource constrained areas through community based childcare centers catering for the 2-8 year old age group. This document is part of the "Promising Practices" series.
This fact sheet provides a brief overview of how the Child Status Index (CSI) can be used by community health works to monitor the wellbeing of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC). The CSI measures six broad areas of a child's wellbeing: food and nutrition; shelter and care; protecting health; psychosocial; protection; and education and skills. The CSI is designed so that measurement can be performed by people living in the same communities as the affected children, who are in the best position to monitor the health of those children on a regular basis.
The focus of this case study is on two out of the three CARE International supported Social Cash Transfer Schemes in Zambia, Kazungula (rural southern) and Chipata (urban eastern); however, these examples are placed within the broader context of the current set of pilots as a group.
This is the fourth of four case studies examining social transfers to OVC in Swaziland. Such social transfers began in the early 2000s as a response to rapidly rising numbers of AIDS orphans as well as rising vulnerability in the population at large, due to a combination of adverse factors and trends.
