NEW! Presentations from CCABA’s September 30th/ October 1st 2009 “Road to Vienna” meeting in Nairobi, Kenya on family-based care of children.

All files are in Adobe Acrobat PDF Format:

• Charles Bruner - Family Centered Services and Young Child Development in Vulnerable Families: Challenges and Opportunities for Public Policy
• Arvin Bhana - The Collaborative HIV Prevention and Adolescent Mental Health Project (CHAMP) Family-Based HIV Prevention Approach
• Sarah Leeper - Lessons Learned from Family-Centered Pediatric HAART Models: Current Approaches and Future Directions
• Ruth Odhiambo - Family-Centred Child-Focused Approach to OVC Support: The 'Nuru Ya Jamil' Model
• Sangeetha Madhava & Vicky Hosegood - Families, Households and HIV/AIDS: A Demographic Perspective
• Linda Richter - Families and Family-Centred Approaches: Implications for Children Affected by HIV/AIDS and Poverty
• Mark Tomlinson - Parental Depression: The Case for Family-Centered Approaches
• Theresa S. Betancourt & Mary Kay Smith Fawzi - Family-Centered Approaches to the Integration of PMTCT + ECD: LG3: Expanding Access to Services and Protecting Human Rights
• Daniel Kinoti - Weaving the Safety Net for Orphans and Vulnerable Children: Advancing the agenda of family-centered services for children affected by HIV and AIDS

The Joint Learning Initiative on Children and AIDS has released its final report, Home Truths: Facing the Facts on Children, AIDS and Poverty. JLICA has also released all of its technical papers.

To view or download the final report, click here:

To view the LICA publications page, which contains the synthesis and technical papers for each of their four Learning Groups, click here:

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Strengthening systems to support children’s healthy development in communities affected by HIV/AIDS : a review, by Dr. Linda Richter. Published by the WHO, 2006.

This document is the expanded version of the document co-authored by Linda Richter, Lorraine Sherr & Geoff Foster, entitled "Where the Heart is." (2 MB)

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A Document listing indigenous networks of organizations in Africa who work with children affected by HIV/AIDS - draft 3 - posted March 20 2007.

Link to UNICEF & UNAIDS documents on children

Links to Bernard van Leer Foundation publications and projects on young children and HIV/AIDS

Link to the Bernard van Leer Foundation home page

Link to International HIV/AIDS Alliance home page - general resources on community-based support to children orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS

Comprehensive on-line toolkit on all aspects of support to children orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS - produced by International HIV/AIDS Alliance and Family Health International

HIV/AIDS and Early Childhood: Coordinators' Notebook - An International Resource for Early Childhood Development (vol. 26, 2002) - produced by the Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care & Development

Handbook on Paediatric AIDS in Africa, by the African Network for the Care of Children Affected by AIDS (2004)

The Promise of a Future - Strengthening Family and Community Care for Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Sub-Saharan Africa, by the - a document co-produced by the Firelight Foundation, the American Jewish World Service, the Bernard van Leer Foundation and the Pan-African Children's Fund

Resources on HIV/AIDS and Children from the World Bank website

Terms of Reference - adopted Sept 21 2006 at Toronto

POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS FROM CHILDREN and HIV/AIDS: ACTION NOW, ACTION HOW, an international symposium held in Mexico City, August 1st and 2nd, 2008

Presentations are listed below in alphabetical order by first name of presenter. All files are in Adobe Acrobat PDF Format:

• Abisheck Musonda - Peer Prevention Strategies - A Case Study of Community Youth Mobilisation
• Ahmed Hussein - Process of Developing the National Plans of Action for OVC in Kenya
• Ana Escalante - History of a Comprehensive Care Model for HIVAIDS orphaned children and youth living in a permanent shelter in Mexico
• Andrew Kiboneka - TASO Paediatric ART program and Child services
• Andrew Tomkins - What do Faith Based Organisations Do and Achieve for Orphans and Vulnerable Children?
• Angélica Valenzuela - Raising the Profile of HIV Affected Children and Meeting their Needs Today
• Anne Lindeberg - Front line organisations and Institutions Growing Stronger Through Evidence-based Practice
• Betty Juma - Speak for the Child - Supporting Young Children Affected by HIV and AIDS - Findings, Efforts, Impacts and Costs
• Bill Philbrick and Pamela Youngs - Implementing a Comprehensive ECD Model - Findings from Africa
• Busi Nkosi, Joan Marston & Eunice Garanganga - Palliative Care for HIV Infected and Affected Children and Adolescents
• Carmen Elena Portillo - Incidencia Juvenil en VIH SIDA
• Catherine Wilfert - Early Identification of Infected Children - Including the Youngest in Need
• Choub Sok Chamreun - Practical Guide to Working with Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Cambodia
• Chris Desmond - Cash Transfers: Sharing the Load - Who Carries What?
• Christopher Ngwerume - How Zimbabwe's Umbrella Funding has Reached Families and Communities
• Christopher Ngwerume - Improving the Coordination of NGO and State-Run Services in Zimbabwe
• Connie Malega Kganagka - Best Evaluated Frontline Programs - A Government Perspective with Lessons from South Africa
• Constance Nyamukapa - Psychosocial Distress in Orphans & Vulnerable Children in Zimbabwe
• David Goetghebuer - Patient Support for Children Living with HIV/AIDS
• Douglas Webb - Enhanced Protection for Children Affected by AIDS - Development in Social Protection
• Douglas Webb - Presentation on Malawi's Experiences with Social Cash Transfers Systems
• Eddy Perez-Then - Ecological Model Population-Based Approach to Achieving Equity, Solidarity and Gender Sensitivity in the Dominican Republic
• Eleanor Ann Nwadinobi - Models of Protecting and Supporting the Girl Child
• Fabienne Héjoaka - Sharing Perspectives from the Field - Disclosure to Children
• Fernando Parreño, Elena Alonso and Pedro Pablo Palma - Clinical and Immunological Outcomes of a Paediactric HIV Cohort in Mulawayo, Zimbabwe
• Health and Development Networks - Symposium Review by Key Correspondents
• Helena Huerga - Good Immune Restitution but Unsatisfactory Viral Suppression in Children on ART in Western Kenya
• Helene Gayle - Standing Up for Children - Their Needs, Our Responsibilities – CARE
• Hoosen Coovadia - PMTCT - A Review of the Past Two Years and the Way Forward
• Jackson Thoya - Plan's Enhanced Protection for Children Affected by HIV and AIDS - Lessons and Best Practices from the Field
• Jane Chege - Closing the Gap- What are the Strategies to Bridge the Gap Between Policy, Research and Front-line Organisations?
• Jane Chege - The Best Evaluated Programs - Improving the Wellbeing of Children Affected by HIV and AIDS
• Jeff Balch - Association of European Parliamentarians for Africa: Parliamentary Action to Secure Early Childhood Rights
• Jodie Fonseca - Promoting Community-Based Early Childhood Development - Practical Ideas and Tools from Mozambique
• Jorge Pinto - Global Challenges with Pediatric Formulations
• Juan García Bonilla - Ideas Jóvenes, Acciones Jóvenes, Cambios Reales
• Kanika Bahl - Clinton Foundation's Perspective: Funder-Civil Society Dialogue on Capacity Building
• Karen Day - Pediatric ARV Formulations and Regimes - Still More to Do
• Leah Berkowitz Nchabeleng - CARE's Experience with Cash Transfers
• Lily Hailu - Education for All Framework - Dakar 2000 Commitments - Will We Make It By 2015?
• Lucie Cluver - Young Carers for AIDS-unwell Adults - Developing a Support Programme in South Africa
• Lynette Mudekunye - Why Care for Children Through Schools? - The South Africa Experience
• Mandla Mazibuko - Reducing Exploitive Child Labor in Southern Africa - Save the Children Swaziland
• Margaret Irvine - Supporting Families Psychosocially - The Context of Children in South Africa
• Maria Mabetoa - Community and Family-based Alternative Care Options for Vulnerable Children in South Africa
• Marine Adamyan - World Vision's HIV Response for Children in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
• Mark Connolly - Supporting Low Prevalence Countries - Human Rights First - Access for All
• Martha Holly Newsome - Findings from a Child Protection Assessment in the Context of HIV and AIDS in Six African Countries
• Martha Holly Newsome, Vivi Stavrou and Edwinah Orowe – Skills-building Session on Adult-Child Partnerships – Lessons Emerging from Consultations Leading up to the RIATT conference “Getting it Right for Children”
• Martha Mukaminega - Providing Complex Regimens for PMTCT in Rwanda - Challenges and Lessons Learnt
• Mary Tangelder - Beneath the Mask - Evaluation of The Teresa Group's Leading the Way Support Program from 1998-2006
• Maxwell Matewere - About Malawi, About Eye of the Child and About Legal Protection for Children
• Michelle Adato - The Case for Cash Transfers - Why Countries Need to Implement Right Now
• Miriam Chipimo - HIV Prevention Through Life Saving Skills Education in Malawi
• Moira Ngaru - Farm Orphan Support Trust of Zimbabwe's Work with Children affected by HIV and AIDS
• Mulugeta Gebru - The Experience of JeCCDO's in Deinstitutionalization of Orphanages
• Nathan Nshakira - Eliminating Service Bottlenecks - Examples of Getting Non-Cash Resources Down to Families and Communities
• Nicol Cave - Soul Buddyz Club and HIV Prevention
• Palesa Mphohle - Advocacy Work on Children by Local Organisations and Their Challenges
• Pam Picken - The Kusaselihle Integrated Early Childhood Development Initiative in Nkandla, South Africa
• Patrice Engle - Psychosocial Care and Treatment for Young Children - Lessons from National Plans of Action
• Paul Schaper - Building a Global Solution - Abbott's Commitment to Pediatric HIV Treatment
• Paul Zeitz - What is Advocacy and What is Activism?
• Petchsri Sirinirund - Community Support Promoting Self-Reliance for Families Affected by HIV - Thailand Experiences
• Petronella Nyamapfene - How Can In-Country Advocacy Efforts for Children Better Be Supported by the International Community?
• Petronella Nyamapfene - Legal Issues Emerging as a Result of HIV AIDS in Zimbabwe
• Rachel Yates - "We'll Always Have Paris" - Aid Effectiveness and the Children Affected by AIDS Response
• Rachel Yates - Implementing Cash Transfers - Key Issues, Successes & Challenges
• Rafiki Callixte - Street Youth Work by Les Enfants de Dieu, Rwanda
• Rodrigo Olin - Peer Education Among Youth in Mexico City
• Rouzeh Eghtessadi - Placing Children in the Visibility Zone - a SAFAIDS Approach to Children and HIV Advocacy
• Sheila Countinho - Improving the Coordination of NGOs and Government-run Services in Uganda
  
• Sheila Tlou - Political Commitment For an HIV-Free Generation - The Botswana Experience
• Sirkka Ausiku - Namibian National Plan of Action for Orphans and Vulnerable Children
• Stuart Kean - National Responses for Children Affected by AIDS - Review of Progress and Lessons Learned
• Sue Goldstein - Soul Buddyz Club and HIV Prevention
• Susan Fox - NGO Code of Good Practice Self Assessment Checklist on Children and HIV
• Svitlana Oleksiyenko - Psycho-Social Support for Children with HIV/AIDS in Ukraine Through Day-Care Centers
• Tamsen Rochat - Evidence, Practice and Funding - What's Filtering Up, What is Not and Why Not?
• Tania Boler - Strengthening the Role of Schools as Centres of Care and Support
• Tomaida Banda - Strengthening the Care Environment of Young Children - Using ECD as An Entry Point
• Tshiwela Neluheni - Scaling-up Pediatric Treatment in South Africa
• Usa Duonsaa - Community Support to Asian Children
• Usha Vatsia - Evidence  Review of Child and Youth Participation in Programming for Children Affected by HIV and AIDS
• Vineeta Gupta - Global AIDS Response and Low-Prevalence Countries
• Vivi Stavrou - Models of Child Participation – Ways to Strengthen Adult-Child Partnerships at International and National Levels
• Wairimu Mungai - Disclosure - A Fundamental Component in Pursuing Rights of Children Affected by HIV and AIDS in Kenya
• William Oscar Fleming - Early Childhood Development and HIV Programming - Evolving Strategies and Models
• Yussuf Ayami - The Faith-based Response - Zambia Interfaith Networking Group on HIV AIDS
• Zebib Kavuma - What Has Worked - Inter-faith Collaboration and Coordination

CCABA has developed these easy-to-use toolkit on how to write effective conference abstracts, and on how to make compelling conference presentations:

CCABA Toolkit on Conference Abstracts & Presentations - EDITION 3 - English

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