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Prepared over a period of one year from September 2015 to September 2016, UNICEF, in partnership with relevant agencies and governments, presents feedback and lessons learned from the Child Protection Programme during the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) epidemic response in West Africa from August 2014 to December 2015.
The report examines three affected countries – Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea – to analyse the degree to which the response was successful in addressing the scale and unique nature of the child protection situation that arose due to the epidemic. Key lessons learned and…
The social consequences of the AIDS pandemic in sub-saharan Africa have been far-reaching and its effects on the rights and well being of children have been devastating. Not only have millions of children lost their parents, but many children have also been made vulnerable because they live in a household with family members who are ill, a poor household that has taken in AIDS orphans, or because they have HIV themselves. Children growing up in vulnerable circumstances may be affected by poor nutrition, inadequate access to education, lack of emotional support, poor health and exploitation or…