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JLICA final report, “Home Truths: Facing the Facts on Children, AIDS, and Poverty” – English, Français, Português

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Executive summary of JLICA final report, "Home Truths: Facing the Facts on Children, AIDS, and Poverty" – English, Français, Português

LG1: Strengthening Families

1. Families and crisis in the developing world: Implications for responding to children affected by HIV/AIDS. Brief
Dr Sangeetha Madhavan and Dr Laurie DeRose - University of Maryland, USA
2. Demographic evidence of family and household changes in response to the effects of HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa: Implications for efforts to strengthen families. Brief
Dr Victoria Hosegood - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK & Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa
3. Dreams and disappointments: Migration and families in the context of HIV and AIDS
Dr Mary Haour-Knipe – Independent consultant, Geneva. Brief
4. Qualitative accounts of family and household changes in response to the effects of HIV and AIDS: A review with pointers to action. Brief
Ms Vuyiswa Mathambo – Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa
Mr Andy Gibbs - Independent consultant, South Africa
5. The family as the locus of action to protect and support children affected by or vulnerable to the effects of HIV/AIDS. Brief (Forthcoming)
Dr Mark Belsey – Consultant, USA
6. What is the potential of cash transfers to strengthen families affected by HIV and AIDS? A review of the evidence on impacts and key policy debates. Brief
Dr Michele Adato and Ms Lucy Bassett – International Food Policy Research Institute, USA
7. A review of the socioeconomic impact of antiretroviral therapy on family wellbeing. Brief
Dr Jose Kimou and Dr Clément Kouakou – Université de Cocody, Cote d’Ivoire
Paul Auguste Assi – Family Health International, Cote d’Ivoire
8. Strengthening families through HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support - A review of the literature. Brief
Prof. Lorraine Sherr – University College London, UK
9. Families' efforts to secure the future of their children in the context of multiple stresses, including HIV and AIDS. Brief
Dr Scott Drimie – RENEWAL, International Food Policy Research Institute, USA
Dr Marisa Casale - HEARD, South Africa
10. Programmes to strengthen families: Reviewing the evidence from high-income countries. Brief
Dr Upjeet Chandan and Prof Linda Richter – Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa
11. The costs of inaction. Brief
Dr Chris Desmond - Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa
12. Children thrive in families: Family-centred models of care and support for orphans and other vulnerable children affected by HIV and AIDS. Brief
Dr Angela Wakhweya, Ms Rebecca Dirks and Dr Kwaku Yeboah - Family Health international, Prevention and Mitigation Division, USA

Learning Group Synthesis Papers

Learning Group 1: Strengthening Families
An obvious truth: Children affected by HIV and AIDS are best cared for in functional families with basic income security, access to health care and education, and support from kin and community. Brief
Learning Group 2: Community Action
Inside-Out? Strengthening Community Responses to Children Affected by HIV/AIDS
Learning Group 3: Expanding Access to Services and Protecting Human Rights
Learning Group 4: Social and Economic Policies

LG2: Community Action

1. Making external resource flows through communities work better for vulnerable children: the experiences, concerns and suggestions of initiatives and care-giving households in Uganda
Nathan Nshakira and Nigel Taylor,
FARST Africa, Kampala, Uganda
2. What have we learnt?
A review of evaluation evidence on community interventions providing care and support to children who have been orphaned and rendered vulnerable
Katie Schenk (independent consultant for JLICA
3. Weaving a tighter safety net:
Supporting children and families amidst the AIDS pandemic
S. Jody Heymann, MD, PhD,McGill University School of Medicine
Rachel Kidman, MSc, McGill University, Institute for Health and Social Policy
4. Economic strengthening and Children Affected by HIV/AIDS in Asia: Role of Communities
Sonal Zaveri
5. HIV/AIDS & Communities: Involving Children and Youth as Part of the Solution. William Oscar Fleming, Usha Vatsia, and Jaden Consultancies for Christian Children’s Fund, Inc.
6. Strengthening the Response for Children Affected by HIV and AIDS through Community-Based Management Information Systems - Cover page. Text
Kendra Blackett-Dibinga and Linda Sussman, Save the Children
7. Review of links between external, formal support and community, household support to children affected by HIV and AIDS in Zimbabwe
Training and Research Support Centre (TARSC)
National AIDS Council (NAC) Zimbabwe
8. Strengthening community and civil society Response to orphans and vulnerable children in Cross River State, Nigeria (Forthcoming)
Authors I. Aniyom1, O. Obono2, U. Oyene3, C. Laniyan4, B. Adebayo5
1State Agency for Control of AIDS, Office of the Governor, Calabar, Nigeria, 2University of Ibadan, Sociology, Ibadan, Nigeria, 3Strengthening Nigeria’s Response to HIV/AIDS Program, Program Support, Calabar, Nigeria, 4Strengthening Nigeria’s Response to HIV/AIDS Program, Country Office, Abuja, Nigeria, 5Strengthening Nigeria’s Response to HIV/AIDS Program, Technical Services, Calabar, Nigeria
9.The Role of Faith-based Organizations (FBOs) in providing care and support to children living with and affected by HIV and AIDS and FBO collaboration with and integration within National HIV Responses (Forthcoming)
Rabia Mathai Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB) New York, USA

LG3: Expanding Access to Services and Protecting Human Rights

1. The Implementation Gap in Services for Children Affected by HIV/AIDS:
Supporting families and communities in caring for and protecting vulnerable children
2. Integration and Expansion of Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV and Early Childhood Intervention Services
3. Integrated Health Care Delivery Systems for Families and Children Impacted by HIV/AIDS: Four Program Case Studies from Kenya and Rwanda
Miriam Zoll, independent consultant
4. Community-Centered Integrated Services for Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Rwanda
Agnès Binagwaho, Julia Noguchi, Marie-Noëlle Senyana-Mottier, Mary C. Smith Fawzi
5. Educational access and HIV prevention: Making the case for education as a health priority in sub-Saharan Africa
Matthew Jukes, D.Phil., Harvard University Graduate School of Education

LG4: Social and Economic Policies

1. A “Socio Economic” Policy Case Study in Tanzania
Masuma Mamdani, Rakesh Rajani, Francis Omondi, and Valerie Leach, Research on Poverty Alleviation
2. Formulating and implementing socio-economic policies for children in the context of HIV/AIDS: South African case study
Debbie Budlender, Paula Proudlock & Lucy Jamieson, Community Agency for Social Enquiry & Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town
3. Poverty, Food Insecurity, HIV Vulnerability, and the Impacts of AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
Stuart Gillespie, International Food Policy Research Institute
4. The inter-generational link between the impacts of AIDS on children, and their subsequent vulnerability to HIV infection: A study of the evidence to inform policy on HIV prevention and child and adolescent protection
Dr Lucie Cluver and Dr Don Operario, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, Oxford University
5. Placing Young Women at the Centre: Reducing Young Women's Vulnerability to HIV in India
Tara Sinha, The Self Employed Women's Assocation
6. Mapping Adolescent Vulnerability to HIV in Dar es Salaam: Results of an Exploratory Study
TAMASHA
7. Social and economic policy and thinking on the protection and support to vulnerable children in an era of HIV and AIDS: Rapid literature review for the Joint Learning Initiative on Children and AIDS (JLICA) Learning Group on on Social and Economic Policies.
Jerker Edstrom, Institute of Development Studies
8. Can a developing country support the welfare needs of children affected by HIV and AIDS? A perspective from Tanzania
Valerie Leach, Research on Poverty Alleviation
9. Can a developing country support the welfare needs of children affected by HIV and AIDS?
Malcolm McPherson
10. Can a developing country support the welfare needs of children affected by HIV and AIDS? The Case of Brazil
Amy Nunn & Francisco Bastos
11. Can a developing country support the welfare needs of children affected by HIV and AIDS?
Chris Desmond, Human Sciences Research Council