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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012 Protecting childhood in the AIDS pandemic. Oxford ; (DLC) 2011032185 (OCoLC)745304171 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jody Heymann; Lorraine Sherr; Rachel Kidman |
ISBN: | 9780199918942 0199918945 |
OCLC Number: | 773920623 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 306 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Meeting the essential needs of all children / Jody Heymann, Lorraine Sherr, and Rachel Kidman -- Even when they're ill : the central role of families in the lives of children affected by AIDS / Linda M. Richter -- Strength under duress : community responses to children's needs / Geoff Foster, Nathan Nshakira, and Nigel Taylor -- Early childhood : the building base for the future / Patrice L. Engle -- Education in a pandemic : the needs of school-age children / Xiaoming Li and Yan Guo -- Healthy minds : psychosocial interventions for school-aged children / Lucie D. Cluver [and others] -- Transition into adulthood : the changing needs of youth / Simona Bignami-Van Assche and Vinod Mishra -- Effective HIV prevention and treatment for pregnant mothers and their children / Hoosen Coovadia and Marie-Louise Newell -- Breaking the cycle : challenges and solutions in pediatric HIV policy / Liezl Smit [and others] -- Choices and consequences : should resources be specifically targeted to children affected by AIDS? / Michelle Adato -- Whose responsibility is it anyway? : your perspectives. |
Responsibility: | edited by Jody Heymann, Lorraine Sherr, Rachel Kidman. |
Abstract:
Protecting Childhood in the AIDS Pandemic provides lessons from experts around the world on how to transform the outcomes of children affected by HIV/AIDS. It examines which public policies and programs best meet the full range of children's needs, from medical care to social support and from infancy to adolescence.
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Protecting Childhood in the AIDS Pandemic is a complex book that helps us to spot the invisible vulnerability that challenges the individual, family, community and states to cooperate. It is interesting to follow the authors' claim. They claim that it pays to invest in a safe and healthy childhood because this will in turn lead to positive effects in its entirety, not just locally, but ultimately also globally. * Tiddsskrift for Den norske legeforening, Feb 2013 * Read more...
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- Child Health Services -- organization & administration.
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- AIDS (Disease) in children.
- Child welfare.
- Sub-Saharan Africa.