Transcript Children Affected by AIDS: Update Save the Children Highlights Presented to IATT Steering Committee Washington, DC September 2009

Children Affected by AIDS:
Update
Save the Children Highlights
Presented to IATT Steering Committee
Washington, DC September 2009
HIV/AIDS Program Priorities
• Orphans and Vulnerable Children
– Scaling up protection and care response
• Prevention for Youth at Risk
– Ensuring responses are epidemiologically based on focused on
what drives youth vulnerability; strengthening approaches to
gender, sexuality and reaching younger children.
• PMTCT/Pediatric AIDS
– Integration of PMTCT into maternal and newborn care; modeling
community approaches to enhance effective prevention,
treatment and care
• Supporting Approaches
– Community Mobilization and Capacity Strengthening
– Community and Home Based Care
Achieving Our Intended Impact
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2009-2010 Highlights
• Quality Standards: piloted in Ethiopia, replicating now in
other countries, adapting for age and developmental
stage with particular focus on early childhood this
coming year.
• Community Based MIS – completed study (JLICA)
looking at community collection and use of data for
identifying, targeting and tracking meeting of needs.
More on this TBD this year.
• Learning from Positive Change (PC3) – lessons learned
about mechanisms for delivering OVC work at scale
• ARSH and OVC - developing manual for incorporation of
ARSH into OVC programming. Guidance identifies
critical minimum package of services for quality
programming.
2009-2010 Highlights
• OVC and protection – increasing CP focus in our Africa
work, and better understanding basis for programming in
lower prevalence settings.
• Documenting needs of children among high risk
populations
• Children as Carers Study – child led study underway
(Nigeria, Uganda (done), Angola and Zimbabwe). Pilots
will follow research results on how to better support.
• Food and nutrition – use of community nutrition
strategies to address severe and moderately acute
malnutrition. Case finding for Pediatric HIV through
2009-2010 Highlights
• Livelihoods and HIV – FIELD guidance / brief: Economic
Strengthening for Vulnerable Children: Principles of
Program Design & Technical Recommendations for
Effective Field Interventions.
• Social Protection Study: 6 country cash transfer study
(SC UK leading, DFID and RIATT collaborating)
• Collaboration with MenEngage on positive gender
socialization
• Other Alliance activities – RIATT, CCABA, OVC TF, and
other OVC, Pediatric HIV, and child protection
collaborations discussed by other presenters