Transcript Coordination for Children and HIV and AIDS in East Asian Pacific Region Inter-Agency Mechanisms.

Coordination for Children and HIV and
AIDS in East Asian Pacific Region Inter-Agency Mechanisms
A Call to Action:
Children – The missing
face of AIDS
Inter-Agency Task Team on
Children and HIV and AIDS
Meeting April 23-24
Yoshimi Nishino
HIV/AIDS Specialist
East Asia Regional Office
UNICEF
Regional Partnership and Major Initiatives
1.East Asia-Pacific Regional
Consultation “Scaling up
response for children – Hanoi
Call to Action” in March 2006
2. ASEAN Summit
Declaration on HIV and AIDS
January 2007
3. UN Regional Partnership
Forum of Children and AIDS,
presented at Asia Pacific
Regional Directors’ Forum
created March 2007
4. Other events happening as
results of Hanoi consultation
Children and AIDS as Emergency Issues in Asia
Impacts on children are serious in
Asia
•120,700 children living with HIV and AIDS
• 46,900 children were newly infected
•155,400 mothers needed MTCT
• 35,000 children needed ART
•1.5 million children had been orphaned
(in 2004 from presentations of Tim Brown and Neff
Walker and at ICAAP in Kobe)
# of Children affected by AIDS in EAP
Country
Thailand
Cambodia
Papua New
Guinea
China
(end 2005,
unofficial)
Vietnam
At least one
parent died of
AIDS
Double
orphans
Children living
with HIV
300,800
30,000
--
60,000 (being
revised)
--
12,000
--
5,393
(3.000)9,400?
146,000 single & double orphans
470,000 orphaned or living in a
household with an HIV+ parent(s)
283,000 (being
revised)
Source: Various country assessments by MOPH, UNICEF or UNCT
--
9,000 (in 2005
alone thru MTCT)
19,200
Contributions of the Hanoi Consultation
 Gained Governmental Commitment to act of
issues of children in the context of HIV and
AIDS
Integrated children & HIV/AIDS issues into
ASEAN declaration (higher-level political
commitment)
Raised Recognition of the importance of data
collection  National Assessments of Children
, Creation Data Hub, and estimation work on
HIV
Input for UN Partnership Forum
Created coordination for children and AIDS at
the country level (Vietnam, Cambodia,
Indonesia, PNG etc)
Efforts of follow up and planning for the next
regional meeting
ASEAN Commitment on HIV and AIDS in Cebu,
January 2007
Cebu commitment acknowledge the Hanoi Call to
Actions for Children and HIV/AIDS and recognizes the
needs for actions.
“NOTING the Hanoi Call to Action for Children and
HIV/AIDS in East Asia and the Pacific Region of 24 March
2006, which highlights nine urgent actions to scale up
response to children who are vulnerable to, infected and
affected by HIV and AIDS. “
“ Strengthen the role of the ASEAN Task Force on AIDS
to effectively implement regional responses to HIV .. “
ASEAN Task Force Work plan was drafted and
presented to participants at KL meeting, January
2007. Mutli-agencies (Governments, UNICEF, UNDP,
UNESCO, UNAIDS etc) committed to support
proposed activities.
Regional Partnership Forum on Children
& AIDS
Objectives:
• To advocate the rights of
children by highlighting
emerging areas of
concerns
• To share programs
experiences & research
findings for policy
advocacy/programming
• To coordinate on
technical matters &
information on program
costs and resource
needs.
Regional Partnership Forum on Children & AIDS:
Proposed tasks and actions
Knowledge diffusion on children and HIV/AIDS (country estimations,
analyses, research methods and analytical guidelines).
Encourage data collection, assessments and reviews of legislation &
policies, development of guidelines for the protection, support and care of
OVCs and CABA.
Encourage the development of country-specific targets and action plans
for children.
Advocate for:
•Increased resources, and better allocation and utilization thereof, to the level
necessary for an adequate response to children (OVC and CABA).
•Establishment of national multi-sectoral mechanisms that focus on children
and will help to coordinate scaled-up responses.
•Actions to reduce stigma / discrimination and other obstacles to access by all
children to essential services.
•Expanded efforts to protect children without caregivers through family- and
community- based care and support options.
•National monitoring and evaluation systems.
Support regional and international networking, information sharing and
research to scale up national responses.
Regional Partnership Forum on Children & AIDS:
Membership and Organization
Core members:
•Representatives / technical focal points from regional UN
agencies, including UNICEF, WHO, UNFPA, UNESC, ILO and
UNAIDS as well as representatives of major civil society
organizations and INGOs eg. Family Health International,
the Save the Children, Plan International, etc
•Additional members may be invited by core members on
the basis of individual expertise and capacity to encourage
support from their organizations and that of their partners
to implement the proposed activities
•Proposed government members: China, Cambodia,
Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Thailand and
Vietnam (by population sizes, stage of epidemic and current
responses)
Other Recent Partnerships Events:
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AIDS Commissions of Asia and Pacific was created – OVC
Policy recommendations based on costing and estimation data
CHINA and Regional Meeting -Chinese MCA is interested in
organizing a regional meeting of AIDS orphans this year .
CAMBODIA - The National Multi-sectoral OVC Task Force is
currently undertaking a situation analysis of Orphans and
Vulnerable Children (OVC)
VIETNAM – National Plan of Actions for children and HIV is being
drafted by inter-agency partnership group
ESTIMATION and projection of HIV Epi trends (coordination with
UNAIDS, CDC, WHO etc)
NATIONAL ASSESSMENTS of Children (Indonesia, China,
Malaysia). Partnership with local universities
Data Hub created for Asia and Pacific (with UNAIDS, ADB), etc.
Recommendations for IATT Based on
reflections
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IMPROVED INFORMATION EXCHANGE AND KM to fill the
information gaps between the region and the international
levels as well as among agencies (data, policy directions)
FACILITATING HIGH-LEVEL DIALOGUES on OVC policies
and children affected by HIV and AIDS and advocacy inside
and outside the core donor agencies
EXPAND REGIONAL COMPARISONS AND FEEDBACK to
each region (low or high prevalence)
MORE RESOURCE mobilization and support
STRENGTHEN LINKAGES with specialized international
researchers (social protections, costing, estimation/projection,
policy experts etc.) and professional resource sharing among
agencies
Thank you!