A publication by the HIV/AIDS Alliance part of the Building Blocks Africa-wide briefing notes. ‘Young children and HIV’ provides practical guidance on meeting the developmental needs of young children affected by HIV and the care and treatment needs of young children living with HIV. Focusing on children under eight years of age, it aims to help local organisations and service providers to strengthen family and community support for these children. Section 1 covers meeting the developmental needs of young children with HIV or affected by HIV and section 2 covers care and treatment of young children.
This is the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute clinical guidelines for disclosure of HIV to perinatally inefected children and adolescents. These guidelines are directed for use by multidisciplinary teams working with families and children living HIV.
Authors:
New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute
Publishing Organisation:
New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute
The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed guidance for health care workers on how to support children up to 12 years of age and their caregivers with disclosure of HIV status. Health care workers (HCWs) know that disclosure decisions are complex because of stigma, social support concerns, family relations, parenting skills and concern about children’s emotional and maturational ability to understand and cope with the nature of the illness.
This is a series of guidelines for counselling people who are infected with HIV or are living with or caring for people with AIDS. Each booklet offers practical guideance on specific counselling issues. This series does not target children specifically but is more designed for assisting adults deal with disclosure.
This protocol has been developed to meet a need for guidance on counseling of children and their parents/guardians about HIV/AIDS in 30 USAID/FHI projects with orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) under the IMPACT project in India. The document follows a
holistic approach to counseling considering HIV/AIDS as one among many other issues in a child’s life.
This Facilitator’s Manual has been developed for the training of community leaders and members, faith based leaders and other adults who are custodians of culture and tradition, and who are therefore essential in influencing the behavior of people within their areas.
This is annex 5 in the publication titled: MSF – OCB, Guideline “Patient Support for HIV infected children”. It addresses the issues of reluctance to disclosure, why it's important to disclose, when to disclose, how to disclose and what does it mean to disclose.
In the field of psychosocial support and while trying to address the psychosocial well-being of families and communities affected by HIV and Aids, poverty and conflict, it is all too easy to forget about infants and young children. This gap is reflected in the literature and across many programmes. It is my sincere hope that this publication goes some way towards addressing this gap.
