World AIDS Day
December 1 is World AIDS Day. Among its many devastating effects, HIV/AIDS leaves behind orphans and children made vulnerable by sick parents and weakened communities. The Bernard van Leer Foundation is committed to keeping young children on the HIV/AIDS agenda.
Vist our information hub on young children and HIV/AIDS, in partnership with Exchange and Source.
Last month the foundation presented the two-yearly Oscar van Leer Award to the Kenya Orphans Rural Development Programme (KORDP). To mark the award, we published a 54-page booklet which is free to order or download (pdf, 2.1mb). It describes in text and photos how KORDP's community-based work, supported by the foundation, improves the lives of HIV/AIDS orphans and vulnerable children in rural communities in western Kenya.
You can find more information about the foundation's work on HIV/AIDS and young children in the theme essay in this year's annual report: "12 million orphans: Reaching out to the hidden victims of the African AIDS pandemic". Click here to read the essay, or alternatively you can download a pdf copy of the Bernard van Leer Foundation's Annual Report 2004 (112 pages, 2.9mb), or request a printed copy through the mail.
Click here to browse the projects we fund in Africa. Click on a project title to find out more details together with a link to the partner organisation's website, if they have one.
This year we published four working papers on young children and HIV/AIDS, a dedicated subseries in our Working Papers series of publications. All are free to download or order:
- Young Children and HIV/AIDS: Mapping the Field (Working Paper 33) offers a concise and comprehensive overview of the literature from a psychological perspective. It explores a range of issues in emotional, psychological, social and physical development, and their relation to broader issues including poverty, nutrition and human rights. It idenifies gaps in knowledge and will help funders, policy makers and practitioners to locate their own work in the bigger picture.
- HIV and Young Children: An annotated bibliography on psychosocial perspectives (Working Paper 34) is an annotated bibliography which offers a practical guide to the content of the references which informed the literature review presented in Working Paper 33 (Young Children and HIV/AIDS: Mapping the Field). It is intended to help readers who want to go deeper into the issues and explore the original source material.
- HIV/AIDS: What about very young children? (Working Paper 35) presents the results of research into the question of how to include very young children in programming and policy responses in HIV/AIDS affected communities.
- The way the money goes (Working Paper 37) examines how HIV/AIDS funding decisions are made and identifies strategies for advocating a greater flow of funds towards young children.
