Infants and Young Children Affected by HIV/AIDS

Richter, Linda; Stein, Alan; Cluver, Lucie; Kadt, Julia de

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“…In South Africa, approximately 2.8 million children have lost at least one parent, with an estimated 1.4 million (49%) presumed to be due to AIDS [ 6 , 8 ]. It is estimated that 80% of children who lose a parent to AIDS are likely to have a surviving parent for whom support and care becomes critical [ 9 ]. Children orphaned by AIDS may be a particularly vulnerable group in terms of emotional problems, behavioural risk taking and school drop out [ 10 , 11 ].…”

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Family‐based HIV prevention and intervention services for youth living in poverty‐affected contexts: the CHAMP model of collaborative, evidence‐informed programme development

Bhana

McKay

Mellins

et al. 2010

Journal of the International AIDS Society

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Family-based interventions with children who are affected by HIV and AIDS are not well established. The Collaborative HIV Prevention and Adolescent Mental Health Program (CHAMP) represents one of the few evidence-based interventions tested in low-income contexts in the US, Caribbean and South Africa. This paper provides a description of the theoretical and empirical bases of the development and implementation of CHAMP in two of these countries, the US and South Africa. In addition, with the advent of increasing numbers of children infected with HIV surviving into adolescence and young adulthood, a CHAMP+ family-based intervention, using the founding principles of CHAMP, has been developed to mitigate the risk influences associated with being HIV positive.

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Family‐based HIV prevention and intervention services for youth living in poverty‐affected contexts: the CHAMP model of collaborative, evidence‐informed programme development

Bhana

McKay

Mellins

et al. 2010

Journal of the International AIDS Society

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“…Studies conducted in South Africa prior to the roll-out of PMTCT in 2003, found that up to one-third of all HIV-positive children would likely have died in their first year of life without access to this treatment. 36 Despite the government's initial commitment to establish the efficacy of nevirapine, a cornerstone of the PMTCT regimen in resource-poor settings, 37 it refused to make this medicine available in the public health sector. 38 An application to remove restrictions on the public provision of nevirapine was brought to the High Court in Pretoria in 2001 by a broad coalition of associations and members of civil society, including the Save our Babies and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC).…”

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“When the skies fight”: HIV, violence and pathways of precarity in South Africa

Mills

2016

Reproductive Health Matters

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Based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in South Africa, this article explores the skies that fight, the proverbial lightning strikes that bring HIV into women's lives and bodies. Departing from earlier studies on ARV programmes in and beyond South Africa, and broadening out to explore the chronic struggle for life in a context of entrenched socio-economic inequality, this article presents findings on women's embodiment of and strategic resistance to structural and interpersonal violence. These linked forms of violence are discussed in light of the concept of precarity. Across two sections, the findings trace the pathways through which precarity entered women's lives, drawing on verbal, visual and written accounts collected through participant observation, participatory photography and film, and journey mapping. In doing so, the ethnography articulates the intersection of structural and interpersonal violence in women's lives. It also reveals the extent to which women exert a 'constrained agency', on the one hand, to resist structural violence and reconfigure their political relationship with the state through health activism; and, on the other hand, to shift the gender dynamics that fuel interpersonal violence through a careful navigation of intimacy and independence.

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“…Chronic protein energy malnutrition (stunting) affects the ongoing development of higher cognitive processes (Kar and others, ). However, a variety of other factors related to child nurturing and stimulation under conditions of poverty interact with and reinforce one another to impede cognitive development (Richter and others, ). Where cognitive development is blighted, failure to acquire basic literacy and numeracy reflects the reproduction of disadvantage (Donald and others, ).…”

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A Social Constructivist Perspective on the Potential Relevance of Selected DSM‐5 Disorders for South African Children and Youth

Kriegler

2014

Children & Society

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In South Africa, careless implementation of child psychiatry"s biomedical model of "mental disorder" could stigmatise children and youth who have been made vulnerable by the lingering effects of apartheid -poverty and malnutrition, violence and abuse, and the HIV/AIDS pandemic. A focus on DSM-5 category changes -regarding posttraumatic stress disorder and ADHD -demonstrates that these psychiatric labels are impracticable and irrelevant in a post-colonial developing country where mental health care is delivered in the context of scarce services and unequal access. A social constructivist perspective enables us to broaden policy decisions and suggest directions for research.

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Infants and Young Children Affected by HIV/AIDS

Cited by 8 publications

References 54 publications

Family‐based HIV prevention and intervention services for youth living in poverty‐affected contexts: the CHAMP model of collaborative, evidence‐informed programme development

Family‐based HIV prevention and intervention services for youth living in poverty‐affected contexts: the CHAMP model of collaborative, evidence‐informed programme development

“When the skies fight”: HIV, violence and pathways of precarity in South Africa

A Social Constructivist Perspective on the Potential Relevance of Selected DSM‐5 Disorders for South African Children and Youth

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