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Perspectivas sobre la transformación de la atención y protección desde un orfanato de Colombia: Fundamor, una organización que ofrece servicios a niños y niñas afectados por el VIH, cerró su internado y, con el apoyo de Lumos, reubicó a los niños y niñas internos en nuevas modalidades de atención familiar.
A pesar de los progresos recientes, Colombia aún enfrenta conflictos y pobreza. Los servicios y el apoyo que se ofrecen en muchas comunidades no satisfacen las necesidades de sus habitantes, y más de 11 000 niños y niñas viven en acogimiento…
Fundamor, a renowned NGO that specialised in providing services for HIV-positive children, decided to try to close its institution and move children to family-based care. The institution had been established at a time when state support for HIV-positive people was in its infancy. Insufficient access to adequate health care, coupled with poverty, led parents of HIV-positive children to bring them to the Fundamor institution. Over time, the leadership of Fundamor noticed that whilst children received good health care, nutrition and education, they were not developing as they would in a family…
This report from UNICEF assesses the world’s performance towards meeting the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to date, focusing on 44 indicators that directly concern 2030’s most important constituency: children. The indicators are clustered into five dimensions of children’s rights: survive and thrive, learning, protection, environment, and fair chance. The indicators include birth registration, violence against children,…
Executive Summary
INTRODUCTION
For children to thrive they must have their needs met in multiple domains and across the life-course; yet, millions of children under the age of five will not meet their developmental potential. Part of the reason for this is due to the burden of HIV coupled with the high prevalence rate of common mental disorders in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In this paper we review published literature on the mental health status of mothers living with HIV (MLH) and how this affects their children; we outline the pathways between maternal HIV,…
The purpose of this research was to capture more accurate and detailed information regarding children in various forms of alternative care in Thailand, as well as the legal, policy, management and oversight environment surrounding them in order to plan and programme more strategically in the area of alternative care, and simultaneously contribute to the global evidence base for international findings and recommendations on alternative care.
The review covered the following types of registered alternative care for children: Residential Care, Foster Care, and Kinship Care.
While the scope…
This paper from UNICEF presents a profile of children in Cambodia, paying particular attention to those who are left behind in different spheres - education, health and nutrition, and protection - against the backdrop of society’s prevalent inequality. It attempts to present key parameters computed from three databases: the Cambodia Socio-economic Survey (CSES) of 2010, the Cambodia Demographic and Health Survey (CDHS) of 2010 and the Commune Database (CDB) of 2010. At the time of writing, 2010 is the latest year for which data on human development indicators is available, and this…
The UN estimates that up to 8 million children around the world are living in care institutions. However, the actual number is likely to be far higher owing to chronic gaps in information. It is also likely to rise with the increasing impact of conflict, climate change and the HIV and AIDS pandemic on the poorest and most vulnerable families.
In many institutions, the standard of care is poor. Many children are abused and neglected. Children under three, in particular, are at risk of permanent developmental damage by not being cared for in a family setting. For all…
ปกป้องเด็กจากภัยของการ เลี้ยงดูทดแทนในรูปแบบสถาบัน: เหตุที่เราควรลงทุนกับการเลี้ยงดูในรูปแบบครอบครัว
The UN estimates that up to 8 million children around the world are living in care institutions. However, the actual number is likely to be far higher owing to chronic gaps in information. It is also likely to rise with the increasing impact of conflict, climate change and the HIV and AIDS pandemic on the poorest and most vulnerable families.
In many institutions, the standard of care is poor. Many children are abused and neglected. Children under three, in particular, are at risk of permanent developmental damage by not being cared for in a family setting. For all…
Executive Summary
The State of the Ugandan Child: An Analytical Overview focuses on four thematic areas, namely: health and nutrition, education, child protection and child participation; with emphasis placed on the girl child. The study relied on secondary data review and primary data collected from key informant interviews (KIIs) at national, district and community levels, as well as Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) with young people aged 14-19 and adult community members from 12 districts. The data was disaggregated to indicate trends in realization of the four categories of child rights…
This paper examines existing knowledge on raising adolescents in east and southern African countries, including Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. According to the report, and within the context of these regions, parenting is understood to be handled through extended community and family networks. These relationships facilitate a child’s progression into adulthood. Several factors impact an adolescent’s healthy transition into adulthood. They include poverty, HIV, workloads and education. Into adolescence, relatives remain a key support,…