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Strengthening Care Responses for Vulnerable Children: 2009-2010 Highlights

Review of HIV/AIDS program priorities for orphans and vulnerable children, prevention for youth, PMTCT/Pediatric AIDS, and community-based care achievements. Updates on quality standards, ARSH integration, and livelihood support.

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Strengthening Care Responses for Vulnerable Children: 2009-2010 Highlights

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  1. Children Affected by AIDS: Update Save the Children Highlights Presented to IATT Steering Committee Washington, DC September 2009

  2. HIV/AIDS Program Priorities • Orphans and Vulnerable Children • Scaling up protection and care response • Prevention for Youth at Risk • Ensuring responses are epidemiologically based on focused on what drives youth vulnerability; strengthening approaches to gender, sexuality and reaching younger children. • PMTCT/Pediatric AIDS • Integration of PMTCT into maternal and newborn care; modeling community approaches to enhance effective prevention, treatment and care • Supporting Approaches • Community Mobilization and Capacity Strengthening • Community and Home Based Care

  3. Achieving Our Intended Impact 5

  4. 2009-2010 Highlights • Quality Standards: piloted in Ethiopia, replicating now in other countries, adapting for age and developmental stage with particular focus on early childhood this coming year. • Community Based MIS – completed study (JLICA) looking at community collection and use of data for identifying, targeting and tracking meeting of needs. More on this TBD this year. • Learning from Positive Change (PC3) – lessons learned about mechanisms for delivering OVC work at scale • ARSH and OVC - developing manual for incorporation of ARSH into OVC programming. Guidance identifies critical minimum package of services for quality programming.

  5. 2009-2010 Highlights • OVC and protection – increasing CP focus in our Africa work, and better understanding basis for programming in lower prevalence settings. • Documenting needs of children among high risk populations • Children as Carers Study – child led study underway (Nigeria, Uganda (done), Angola and Zimbabwe). Pilots will follow research results on how to better support. • Food and nutrition – use of community nutrition strategies to address severe and moderately acute malnutrition. Case finding for Pediatric HIV through

  6. 2009-2010 Highlights • Livelihoods and HIV – FIELD guidance / brief: Economic Strengthening for Vulnerable Children: Principles of Program Design & Technical Recommendations for Effective Field Interventions. • Social Protection Study: 6 country cash transfer study (SC UK leading, DFID and RIATT collaborating) • Collaboration with MenEngage on positive gender socialization • Other Alliance activities – RIATT, CCABA, OVC TF, and other OVC, Pediatric HIV, and child protection collaborations discussed by other presenters

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