Children Affected by AIDS: Update

Save the Children HighlightsPresented to IATT Steering Committee

Washington, DC September 2009

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

Achieving Our Intended Impact

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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.

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

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