DiseasesTechnology, Industry, AgricultureNamed GroupsGeographicals
BotswanaOrphan Drug ProductionSwazilandNamibiaChild, OrphanedAfrica, SouthernHIV Infections
South AfricaVulnerableNeglectAIDSMalawiPrevalenceWelfareInitiativeTeamTraining on youWorkersCaseGroupHighParentsPopulationCareCountryGiveSocialProblemsSupportGovernmentAfricaOrphanageGrandparentsSevereAdultsCaretakersChildhoodFamiliesPreventionWomenCareYearsIncludeMozambiqueExistWorkDiseasesFamilyStudyMillionSignificantOlderCenter
South Africa2
  • 2018). "Childhood adversity increases the risk of onward transmission from perinatally HIV-infected adolescents and youth in South Africa. (stonybrookmedicine.edu)
  • 2015) "Bridging the gap: the impact of home visiting programs on social grant uptake among HIV-affected households caring for orphans and vulnerable children in South Africa. (stonybrookmedicine.edu)
Vulnerable2
  • By creating a nurturing environment for these vulnerable orphans, Elephant Havens provides them with a second chance to heal, thrive, and eventually return to the wild, contributing to the conservation of this majestic species. (colossal.com)
  • investigation of health and educational disparities among children affected by AIDS in Malawi, case studies of community programming for orphans in Botswana, and research on best-practices for programs serving vulnerable children and their families for UNICEF. (stonybrookmedicine.edu)
Neglect3
AIDS12
  • About 68,000 children have been orphaned as a result of Botswana's AIDS epidemic and 12,000 youth aged 0 to 14 are living with HIV. (aiha.com)
  • As Botswana celebrates 50 years of independence, the country is making a bold move toward epidemic control as a leader in the response to HIV/AIDS. (aiha.com)
  • Botswana launched a new policy of "Test and Start" to expand treatment for people living with HIV, which is expected to avert more than 120,000 new infections and 55,400 deaths over the next 15 years, significantly decrease new TB cases, and move the country into a more sustainable era in its response to HIV/AIDS. (aiha.com)
  • With support from PEPFAR and the United States Government team in country, AIHA began working in Botswana in 2007 through our HRSA-supported HIV/AIDS Twinning Center Program and has implemented seven partnerships, along with a Volunteer Healthcare Corps (VHC) program - all of which have successfully graduated from our technical assistance program. (aiha.com)
  • Elizabeth Styffe is the director of the Orphan Care Initiatives and co-founded the HIV/AIDS Initiative at Saddleback Church. (123helpme.com)
  • AIDS in Botswana Botswana has disturbing statistics related to AIDS, when compared to those of a developed nation like Australia. (123helpme.com)
  • Without AIDS in Botswana, the life expectancy would be about 64. (123helpme.com)
  • According to the National Centre for AIDS and sexually transmitted disease (STD) Control ( NCASC ), there are close to 5,000 children under 14 years of age living with HIV in Nepal today, but local NGOs and health workers estimate the real number to be much higher. (ionglobaltrends.com)
  • According to the National Centre for AIDS and STD Control in the Ministry of Health and Population, there are more than 50,000 adults and children living with HIV, and an estimated overall prevalence of 0.30 percent in the adult population (15-49 years old). (ionglobaltrends.com)
  • Much of her research examines the impact of HIV/AIDS on child and adolescent welfare in sub-Saharan Africa, factors that create vulnerability or resilience in this population, and interventions that can effectively meet their needs. (stonybrookmedicine.edu)
  • 2010) "Contribution of AIDS-related impacts to child-morbidity in Malawi," Social Science and Medicine, 71, 66-974. (stonybrookmedicine.edu)
  • 2014) "Family functioning and child behavioral problems in households affected by HIV and AIDS in Kenya" AIDS and Behavior . (stonybrookmedicine.edu)
Malawi1
  • 2014) "Fertility among orphans in rural Malawi: Challenging common assumptions about risk and mechanisms. (stonybrookmedicine.edu)
Prevalence1
  • With a population of just 2.2 million people, Botswana has one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in sub-Saharan Africa. (aiha.com)
Welfare1
Initiative1
  • This included supporting implementation of high-priority treatment activities spearheaded by the Botswana University of Maryland School of Medicine Health Initiative (BUMMHI), PEPFAR's lead care and treatment partner in the country. (aiha.com)
Team1
  • Miraculously, a team of conservationists from a nearby elephant rescue organization received word of this orphan in need and immediately sprang into action. (colossal.com)
Training on you1
  • AIHA also provided a grant to support training on youth-friendly health services, enabling BUMMHI to conduct a total of six trainings - three that trained 73 healthcare providers on adolescent sexual reproductive health and three that trained 78 young people between the ages of 15 and 24 years (a PEPFAR target group for epidemic control) as peer educators with a focus on life skills. (aiha.com)
Workers2
  • In Botswana, a severe shortage of skilled health workers is one of the main challenges limiting delivery of high quality healthcare services and greatly undermining health system performance. (aiha.com)
  • Workers are being taken in their prime, and many children are left orphaned without a primary caregiver. (123helpme.com)
Case1
  • In one extreme case six months ago, a five-year-old orphaned HIV-positive child (name withheld upon request) died of exposure after his relatives forced him to sleep in the barn out of fear that he would infect the other children. (ionglobaltrends.com)
Group1
  • or the organisation or group established outside Botswana is of a political nature, although it is unclear on what constitutes as political nature. (africanphilanthropy.org)
High1
  • Other public health challenges in Botswana include a high risk of infectious diseases, such as typhoid fever, tuberculosis, and malaria, which is a particular problem in the Northern regions of the country. (aiha.com)
Parents1
  • Orphaned elephants who most often lose their parents due to fatal conflict with people can die from grief if they don't form new attachments to other elephants or human caregivers. (colossal.com)
Population1
  • Recognizing the growing human-elephant conflicts in Botswana caused by the country's large elephant population [2], increasing human development, and habitat loss, Elephant Havens strives to find practical, affordable, and effective ways for people and wildlife to coexist. (colossal.com)
Care1
  • At the heart of Elephant Havens' work is their orphanage where they provide essential care and love to orphaned elephants. (colossal.com)
Country1
Give2
  • His office can only provide life-prolonging antiretroviral drugs - there is no separate budget to give these children any social support. (ionglobaltrends.com)
  • We went ahead and registered Capernaum Trust, a charity that we decided would give scholarships to needy children. (forbes.com)
Social1
Problems1
Support1
  • AIHA's support to BUMMHI fell into two categories: data reconstruction and youth-friendly services. (aiha.com)
Government1
  • There could be many more orphans and children living with HIV, but the government of Nepal has failed to pay any attention to their plight. (ionglobaltrends.com)
Africa5
  • With a population of just 2.2 million people, Botswana has one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in sub-Saharan Africa. (aiha.com)
  • It is said youth are the 'backbone' of the Church in Africa. (episcopalnewsservice.org)
  • The deep-rooted kinship systems that exist in Africa, extended -family networks of aunts and uncles, cousins and grandparents, are an age-old social safe net for such a children that has long proved itself resilient even to major social changes. (tripod.com)
  • In South Africa, these include the contribution the monthly old age pension makes to family incomes as well as older people's role in caring for grandchildren and other children whose parents are absent ( HelpAge International, 2003 ). (nih.gov)
  • Our six-day itinerary would take us to Mozambique, South Africa, Botswana, and Côte d Ivoire. (nih.gov)
Orphanage2
  • The American orphan Henry Darger portrayed the horrible conditions of his orphanage in his art work. (wikipedia.org)
  • In Ethiopia, for example, keeping a child in an orphanage costs between US$300 and US$500 a year, over three times the national income per person. (tripod.com)
Grandparents1
  • Increased financial and other support is needed for adults, especially grandparents, caring for orphans, including those who are HIV-positive. (whatworksforwomen.org)
Severe2
  • In Botswana, a severe shortage of skilled health workers is one of the main challenges limiting delivery of high quality healthcare services and greatly undermining health system performance. (aiha.com)
  • To share experiences on the capacity building of health workers in the treatment protocols for the management of children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in Uganda. (uncst.go.ug)
Adults1
  • With one in four adults infected with HIV and one in five children orphaned, it is no surprise that talk of "crisis" frames Botswana's epidemic. (ssrc.org)
Caretakers2
  • We gave hugs, smiles, and encouragement to the children and their caretakers, but what was most needed were drugs that could improve and prolong lives. (nih.gov)
  • As the primary caretakers of children, women may feel the need to be submissive for the sake of their children's welfare. (land-links.org)
Childhood1
  • Orphans are relatively rare in developed countries, because most children can expect both of their parents to survive their childhood. (wikipedia.org)
Families4
  • Studies found families caring for orphans lacked adequate food and nutrition and reported financial difficulties in meeting basic needs. (whatworksforwomen.org)
  • In mapping out the current terrain on social protection, we highlight the constraining factors shaping the landscape within which widows and abandoned women, children in HIV affected families, HIV orphans (Kidman et al. (awid.org)
  • Former Mother's Union President for the Diocese of Lusaka, Dr Fridah Sakala Kazembe, recently urged all women to "adhere to the objectives of the Mother's Union in order to create safe havens for women and children in our families. (episcopalnewsservice.org)
  • Families and communities can barely fend for themselves, let alone to take care of the orphans. (tripod.com)
Prevention2
  • HHS research at several South African field sites on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV has strong support, but Tshabalala-Msimang wanted to discuss other health concerns food safety, TB and other infectious diseases, teen pregnancy, nutrition, and biotechnology. (nih.gov)
  • Annual reports on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of the HIV infection. (nih.gov)
Women4
  • The aftermath of the global financial crisis has eroded the well-being of women, men and children. (awid.org)
  • 2012). The lives of women, men and children were on the frontlines. (awid.org)
  • They campaign to end violence against women and the trafficking of women and children. (episcopalnewsservice.org)
  • C) Women and children who are refugees or are internally displaced persons are especially vulnerable to sexual exploi- tation and violence, thereby increasing the possibility of HIV infection. (nih.gov)
Care4
  • By demonstrating precisely how foreign-funded orphan-care charities create new relations of inequality, affect kinship, and transform the emotional lives of orphans, this ethnography disentangles components of "crisis" and its consequences at multiple social levels. (ssrc.org)
  • Programs should encourage male involvement in children's treatment and orphan care. (whatworksforwomen.org)
  • They also run an Orphan Day Care Centre supporting 60 orphaned children between the ages of two and six. (episcopalnewsservice.org)
  • In the common use, an orphan does not have any surviving parent to care for them. (wikipedia.org)
Years2
  • AIHA also provided a grant to support training on youth-friendly health services, enabling BUMMHI to conduct a total of six trainings - three that trained 73 healthcare providers on adolescent sexual reproductive health and three that trained 78 young people between the ages of 15 and 24 years (a PEPFAR target group for epidemic control) as peer educators with a focus on life skills. (aiha.com)
  • A survey conducted by the Ministry of Civil Affairs in 2005 showed that China has about 573,000 orphans below 18 years old. (wikipedia.org)
Include1
  • Other notable orphans include entertainment greats such as Louis Armstrong , Marilyn Monroe , Babe Ruth , Ray Charles and Frances McDormand , and innumerable fictional characters in literature and comics. (wikipedia.org)
Mozambique1
  • En route to Mozambique, NIAID Director Tony Fauci briefed us on scientific and biomedical issues facing Mozambique and other African nations. (nih.gov)
Exist1
  • Much higher numbers of orphans exist in war-torn nations such as Afghanistan . (wikipedia.org)
Work3
  • Click here for a printable overview of our work in Botswana. (aiha.com)
  • These children return to the center each week for a progress check, a meal and help with their school work. (episcopalnewsservice.org)
  • [12] Although not all street children are orphans, all street children work and many do not have significant family support. (wikipedia.org)
Diseases2
  • You show people a picture of one sad-looking puppy and everyone runs for their wallet, and you tell them that 30,000 children die a day of diseases that can be prevented for less than a buck and nobody gives a rat's ass. (truthdig.com)
  • Developing expertise in low-resource settings has never been more critical, since diseases such as Ebola can quickly move from a child in a West African jungle to a nurse in Texas. (nih.gov)
Family1
  • Instead of staying quiet, the MU stood on one of their major objectives of "promoting conditions in society favorable to stable family life and the protection of children. (episcopalnewsservice.org)
Study1
  • A study found that orphans were more likely to be at WHO clinical stage 4, and need timely treatment initiation. (whatworksforwomen.org)
Million2
  • some estimate that there are as many as 40 million street children in Latin America. (wikipedia.org)
  • About 2 million children in the United States (or about 2.7 percent of children) have a deceased mother or father. (wikipedia.org)
Significant1
  • BUMMHI determined that 11 percent of patients reported as currently on treatment across the facilities they support and manage we actually LTFU - a significant number of PLHIV that BUMMHI will now be able to track and bring back into treatment as a way to help Botswana achieve the global 90-90-90 targets. (aiha.com)
Older1
  • [6] This contrasts with the older use of half-orphan to describe children who had lost only one parent. (wikipedia.org)
Center1