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Abstract
Côte d’Ivoire has one of the highest adult HIV prevalence rates in West Africa; HIV has directly affected an estimated 440,000 orphans and vulnerable children (OVC). Some support programs use community caregivers (CC) to provide care and support to children left vulnerable by the epidemic. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact that the use of a CC service provision model had on outcomes for children orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS in Côte d’Ivoire. A sequential mixed-methods design was used, making use of both quantitative (survey) and qualitative (focus…
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…