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Resources on Children and AIDS

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Care and Support:

• Southern African AIDS Trust (2001): Counselling Guidelines on Survival Skills for People Living with HIV
• Loening-Voysey, H.; Wilson, T.; Institute for Urban Primary Health Care (2001): Approaches to Caring for Children Orphaned by AIDS and Other Vulnerable Children: Essential Elements of Quality Service
• World Health Organisation (2002):  Community home-based care in resource-limited settings: A framework for Action
• World Health Organisation (2004):  Chronic HIV Care with ARV Therapy
• Ramsden, N; (2002): Community Help for Children Living in and HIV+ World, Children's Rights Centre
• Southern African AIDS Trust (2003): Guidelines for counselling children who are infected with HIV or Affected by HIV and AIDS
• Richter, L; Manegold, J; Pather R (2004): Family and Community Interventions for Children Affected by AIDS, Human Sciences Research Council
• Global HIV Prevention Working Group (2004): HIV prevention in the era of expanded treatment access
• UNICEF (2003):  Fighting HIV/AIDS Strategies for success
• Population Council: Horizons Report June 2005: Psychosocial support for Children
• Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization (2003):  HIV-infected women and their families: psychosocial support and related issues
• World Health Organisation: The importance of caregiver-child interactions for the survival and healthy development of young people

Early Childhood Development:

• Department of Social Development, Republic of South Africa and UNICEF (2006) Guidelines for Early Childhood Development Services
• Kelly, M. J. (2005): The power of Early Childhood as a healing force in the AIDS crisis, Paper for presentation to World Forum on Early Care and Education, Montreal, 19th May 2005
• The Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development (2002): HIV/AIDS and Early Childhood: Coordinator's Notebook Issue 26
• Sherr, L. (2005): HIV and young children: An annotated bibliography on psychosocial perspectives, Working papers in Early Childhood Development: Young child and HIV/AIDS sub-series 34, Bernard van Leer Foundation
• Dunn, A. (2005): HIV/AIDS: What about very young children? Working papers in Early Childhood Development: Young child and HIV/AIDS sub-series 35, Bernard van Leer Foundation
• UNICEF, Department of Social Development, Department of Education (2005): Report on experts' meeting: Pshyco social care and support of HIV positive babies and young children on ART, South Africa
• World Health Organisation (1999): A critical link: interventions for physical growth and pshychological development
• UNICEF (2002): Finance development: Invest in Children
• Lansdown, G. (2005): Can you hear me? The right of young children to participate in decisions affecting them, Working papers in Early Childhood Development: Young child and HIV/AIDS sub-series 36, Bernard van Leer Foundation
• Shonkoff, J.P. (2004): Science,Policy,and the. Young Developing Child. Closing the Gap. Between What We Know, Published by Ounce of Prevention Fund
• Office for the High Commissioner for  Human Rights (2006): General Comment COMMENT No. 7 (2005), Implementing Child Rights in Early Childhood, Committee on the Rights of the Child, Forty-First Session, 9-27 January 2006
• Early Childhood Care and Development Group (2002): HIV/AIDS and Early Childhood, Coordinator's Notebook Issue 26
• Early Childhood Care and Development Group (2002): Early Childhood Indicators, Coordinator's Notebook Issue 25
• Cantwell, N. (2006): Children without parental care: Qualitative alternatives, Early Childhood Matters 105, Bernard van Leer Foundation
• UNICEF (2005): A seven-fold return on investment: The best start in life for every child
• Richter, L. (2004): The impact of HIV/AIDS on the development of children, Published in Monograph no 109, Dec 2004 A Generation at risk? HIV/AIDS vulnerable children and security in South Africa
• UNICEF (2002): Finance Development: Invest in Children
• Heckman, J. (2000): Invest in the very Young, Published by Ounce of Prevention Fund and University of Chicago
• Alliance for Childhood: Time for Play, Every Day: It's fun - and fundamental
• Heckman, J. (2000): Policies that foster human capital, Research in Economics, Elsevier, vol. 54(1), pages 3-56, March
• The Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development (2004): Positioning ECCD: Coordinator's Notebook Issue 28
• Heckman, J.J.; Masterov, D.V. (2005): The productivity argument for investing in young children
• World Health Organisation (2006): Investing in the furture of children, CSDH Newsletter, Issue 7 March/April2006
• World Health Organisation (2003): Social Determinants of Health: Solid Facts, Second Edition, Healthy Cities 21st Century, International Centre for Health Society
• Lusk, D., Mararu, J., O'Gara,C., Dastur, S. (2003): Speak for the Child - Case study: Kenya, Academy for Educational Development
• Dunn, A. (2005): The way money goes: An investigation of flows of funding and resources for young children affected by HIV/AIDS, Working papers in Early Childhood Development: Young child and HIV/AIDS sub-series 37, Bernard van Leer Foundation
• Pence, A. (2004), ECD Policy Development and Implementation in Africa, Early Childhood and Family Policy Series No 9, UNESCO
• Sherr, L. (2005): Young children and HIV/AIDS: Mapping the field, Working papers in Early Childhood Development: Young child and HIV/AIDS sub-series 33, Bernard van Leer Foundation
• Orrego, M.E. (1994) Life is difficult - Let's play first! Celebrations as a vehicle building family and community life, Zero to Three bulletin Vol 14

Orphans and Vulnerable Children in South Africa:

• Anderson, BA and  Phillips HE,  (2006):  Trends  in  the  percentage  of children  who  are  orphaned  in  South  Africa:  1995–2005.  Report  No.  03-09-06. Pretoria: Statistics South Africa
• Budlender,D.; Mwite, E.; Zimba, M.; Motala, S. (2006): A National audit of local-level databases on orphans and vulnerable children in South Africa; CASE, UNICEF, Department of Social Development
• Smart, R. (2003): Children affected by HIV/AIDS in South Africa: A rapid appraisal of priorities, policies and practicies, Commissioned by Safe the Children (UK) in collaboration with the Department of Social Development
• Children's Insititute, University of Cape Town (2004) Helping children in a time of HIV and AIDS

Child Rights:

• UNICEF (2005): The 'Rights' start to lifs: A statistical ananlysis of birth registration
• UNICEF (2003):  Building a World Fit for Children
• Hodgkin, R.; Newell, P. (2002) Implementation handbook for the Convention on the Rights of the Child - fully revised edition, UNICEF
• UNICEF (2003): The millenium development goals: They are about children
• UNICEF (2002):  A World Fit for Children
• Annan, KA. (2001): We the children UNICEF for the UN

For Parliamentarians:

• Inter-Parliamentary Union and UNICEF (2004): Child protection: A handbook for parliamentarians
• Inter-Parliamentary Union and UNICEF (2005): Combating Child Trafficking: Handbook for Parliamentarians
• UNICEF, UNAIDS, European Parliamentarians for Africa, The Parliamentary Network on the World Bank (2003): What parliamentarians can do about HIV/AIDS: Action for children and young people

A call to Action:

• UNICEF (2005): Children: The missing face of AIDS

Health and Nutrition:

• World Health Organisation (2005): Antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant women and preventing HIV infection in infants
• Family Health International (2006): Handbook on Paediatric AIDS in Africa
• World Health Organisation and UNICEF (2006): Handbook IMCI Integrated Management of Childhood Illness
• UNICEF and World Health Organisation (2006): Management of sick children by community health workers
• World Health Organisation, UNAIDS, UNICEF, UNFPA, USAID, CDC (2004):  National guide to monitoring and evaluation programmes for the prevention of HIV in infants and young children
• Rutenberg, N.; Kalibala, S.; Baek, C.; Rosen, J. (2003) Programme recommendations for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, UNICEF
• World Health Organisation (2003 revision) Scaling up antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited settings
• Panos Institute and UNICEF (2001): Stigma, HIV/AIDS and prevention of mother-to-child transmission: A pilot study in Zambia, India, Ukraine and Burkina Faso
• The Population Council (2003): HIV voluntary counselling and testing: An essential component in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, Horizons
• World Health Organisation (2003): HIV and infant feeding: Framework for priority action
• World Health Organisation (2003): HIV and infant feeding: Guidelines for decision-makers 
• World Health Organisation (2003): Nutrient requirements for people living with HIV/AIDS

Protection:

• Global partners Forum and UNICEF (2004): The Framework for the protection, care and support of orphaned and vulnerable children in a world with HIV and AIDS
• UNICEF (2003): Children, Armed Conflict and HIV/AIDS

Education:

• Case A.; Paxson C.; Ableidinger, J. (2004):  Orphans in Africa: Parental death, poverty and school enrollment, Centre for Health and Wellbeing, Research Programme in Development Studies, Princeton University
• UNICEF (2004): Girls, HIV/AIDS and Education
• Inter-agency Task Team on Education (2004): The role of education in the protection, care and support of orphans and vulnerable children living in a world with HIV and AIDS
• Global Campaign for Education (2004): Learning to survive: How Education for all would save millions of young people from HIV/AIDS
• Boler, T.; Aggleton, P. (2004) Life skills-based education for HIV prevention: A critical analysis, UN working group on education and HIV/AIDS, published by Action AID, Save the Children
•  UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Region (2006): UNGEI Forum: Child Friendly Schools and Care and Support in Schools, Vol. 6 No. 1 March 2006
• UNICEF (2005): An Essential package of school-based interventions in Southern Africa: Regional strategy for country action