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There is widespread recognition of the urgency necessary to address the problem of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) within the context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, especially in sub- Saharan Africa. Many countries in the region, in collaboration with development agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), have outlined policy guidelines and identified models of intervention. As a result, a considerable number of programmes targeting OVC have been implemented in the past few years. However, there are very few which have been independently evaluated in order to establish…
The devastating consequences of HIV/AIDS on African societies, and its particular impact on children, is requiring every organisation involved in fighting the epidemic to find new strategies to address adequately both the scale of the problem and its duration. The crisis of children left behind by AIDS is a humanitarian, development and human rights challenge of unprecedented proportions.
Although there have been substantial gains in improving overall child survival, these gains are being eroded in African countries hardest hit by the epidemic. The scale of the epidemic on this…