Children and AIDS (eBook, PDF)

Sub-Saharan Africa
Redaktion: Lombe, Margaret; Ochumbo, Alex

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The disproportional loss of individuals to HIV/AIDS in their most productive years raises concerns over the welfare of surviving members of affected families and communities. One consequence of the rapid increase in adult mortality is the rise in the proportion of children who are orphaned. Sub-Saharan Africa, accounts for about 90 percent of these. Mainly due to the staggering toll of HIV/AIDS, research effort has focused on treatment and prevention. Children have received attention primarily in relation to 'mother to child transmission' and paediatric AIDS. These issues are important and compelling but fail to capture the whole story - the unprecedented surge in the number of children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. In this book we reflect on the plight of children classified as vulnerable, review interventions implemented to improve their welfare and grapple with the concept of vulnerability as it relates to human rights and the African child.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134796342
• Artikelnr.: 48410517

Autorenporträt

Margaret Lombe, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work. She is also a faculty associate at the Center for Social Development at Washington, University. Her area of expertise is in international social development with an emphasis on social inclusion/exclusion and capacity building. Alex Juma Ochumbo, Ph.D., is the vice president for Capacity Building and Research at the Ethiopian Catholic University of St. Thomas Aquinas (ECUSTA). His main interest is in the area of sustainability of programs to assist HIV/AIDS Children and Orphans in sub-Saharan Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; Introduction. Section One Overview of the Issue: AIDS related vulnerabilities among children in Sub-Saharan Africa: an overview
Lyndsey McMahan
Chiedza Mufunde and Margaret Lombe. Section Two The Living Arrangement of Orphaned and Vulnerable Children in Sub-Saharan Africa: Fostered children in Botswana
Tapologo Maundeni
Naomi Seboni and Ogar Rapinyana; Experiences of children in residential care: the case of Kenya
Protus Lumiti
Alex J. Ochumbo and Nicholas Syano; The living arrangements of vulnerable children in Zambia
Margaret Lombe and Theresa Lungu. Section Three Responding to Orphaned and Vulnerable Children: An Overview of Public and Private Initiatives: Responses to orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC) in Botswana
Naomi Seboni
Tapoplogo Maundeni
Ogar Rapinyana and Mosidi Tseleng Cynthia Mokotedi; Responding to orphaned and vulnerable children in Kenya
Alex Ochumbo
Protus Lumiti
and Nicholas Syano; Responding to orphaned and vulnerable children in Zambia
Theresa Lungu
Chrisann Newransky and Aakanksha Sinha. Section Four Children Speak Out: Children speak out: is anyone listening?
Margaret Lombe and Alex Ochumbo. Section Five Making Children Matter: Vulnerability among children and the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Margaret Lombe and Harriet Mabikke; Conclusion: closing thoughts
Margaret Lombe
Harriet Mabikke and Alex Ochumbo. Index.