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This report includes a literature, evidentiary, and policy review of social protection in the Eastern and Southern African Region. According to this report, an estimated 1.2 million HIV-positive children and adolescents live in the Eastern and Southern African region. Most of these children face struggles in maintaining antiretroviral therapy adherence and receiving HIV-related services. In the literature review, there is a recognition of the tremendous amount of resilience found in HIV-infected children and adolescents as they negotiate and navigate support. This report stresses the need for…
Cette déclaration a été développée à partir d’un ensemble grandissant de pratiques et de faits probants sur le renforcement des systèmes de protection de l’enfance en Afrique subsaharienne1 et s’inspire du dialogue et des résultats d’une conférence interinstitutionnelle sur le sujet qui a eu lieu à Dakar au Sénégal en mai 2012.
Son objectif est (i) de présenter une vision commune des systèmes de protection de l’enfance en Afrique subsaharienne et d’expliquer pourquoi ils sont importants et méritent des investissements et (ii) lancer un appel à l’action auprès des…
This report focuses on the social protection aspects of children’s property and inheritance rights in southern and eastern Africa. The introduction summarizes the findings of the author’s previous report for FAO on the legal aspects of children’s property and inheritance rights, and it discusses the findings of the current report.
The second section discusses the bi-directional relationship between HIV/AIDS and agriculture, food security, and rural livelihoods (including the relationship between HIV/AIDS and children’s property and inheritance rights). The report also considers the factors…
There has been a broad and growing recognition of the need to intensify and accelerate actions towards universal access to comprehensive prevention, treatment, care and support. Commitment to attaining this goal by 2010 was affirmed by Heads of State and Governments and their representatives participating in the 2006 High-Level Meeting on AIDS held at the United Nations in New York, 31 May-2 June 2006 and by the declaration to this commitment by the AU heads of state in Abuja in the same year. This calls for the involvement and alignment of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) response…