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Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
Despite significant progress over the last decade, HIV remains a considerable global challenge. Children across the globe continue to suffer a disproportionate burden of HIV morbidity and mortality. In 2017, children under 15 years of age accounted for 6% of the total people living with HIV globally and 11% of total AIDS-related deaths. In 2015, AIDS was the fourth most frequent cause of death among girls aged 10-14 years globally, and the fourth most common cause of death among all 10-19 year-olds in African low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Children and adolescents continue to be underserved by services across the HIV treatment cascade. Of the 2.1 million children aged under 15 years living with HIV, only 43% have access to ART, compared to 54% of adults aged 15 years and over. Despite improvements in paediatric treatment options, children aged under 15 years continue to have lower viral suppression rates compared to adults aged 15 years and above. Similarly, low early infant diagnosis (EID) coverage and linkage to care rates continue to pose significant threats to infant, child and adolescent health and survival.
Save the Children is at the forefront in fight against the HIV epidemic. It works across the globe to support expanded access to comprehensive HIV prevention, care, treatment and support services for children, women and families affected by HIV, focusing on countries with a high burden of disease and/or low coverage. SC works in close partnership with governments, local organizations, communities and other stakeholders, developing and implementing sustainable, replicable, facility- and community-based approaches that can be taken to scale. It’s HIV & TB Strategy for 2017-20 focus on four programmatic priorities;
- Eliminate pediatric HIV infection through promoting the Global strategy for ending AIDS and by implementing the prevention of mother-to child transmission of HIV (E/PMTCT) services to pregnant women and babies;
- Identify all HIV infected children and provide treatment, care, and support services to infected and affected children;
- Provide comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment services to adolescents, focusing on HIV positive adolescents, adolescent girls and young women, and key populations (MSM, transgender, FSW/MSW, and PWID); and
- Eliminate and treat TB among children and adolescents.
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Step Up, Speak Out: The MSA Field Guide on Policy Advocacy for MSM and Transgender Communities in South Asia
This advocacy guide is designed to provide advice to men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender communities in South Asia on how to formulate and implement advocacy strategies to achieve policy change to protect the rights and improve the health and
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Global Health HIV, AIDS and TB Fact Sheet
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Final Project Evaluation Report towards Systematic Change to Realize Children’s Rights in Zambia (2013 to 2017)
Save the Children (SC) Zambia implemented a Child Rights Program (2013-2017) titled; “Towards a systematic change to realize Children’s Rights in Zambia.” The programme had three thematic areas namely; Child Rights Governance (CRG), Child Protection, and
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Religion & Sexuality: A report on faith-based responses to children's comprehensive sexuality education and information
As the world is rapidly becoming more complex, with many children maturing earlier and being exposed to competing sources of information, the need for Comprehensive Sexuality Education and Information (CSE & I) has become urgent. There is a growing need t
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Chetona Project
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Minimum Standards for the Integration of HIV and Sexual & Reproductive Health in the SADC Region
On the whole, Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) members have reported gradual improvements in sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and HIV indicators. However, most Member States are not on track to meet Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 on r
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Stopping Child Sexual Abuse in Bangladesh: Documentation of good practices
This publication is an outcome of the project ”Improving Child Protection and Rehabilitation of Children from Sexual Abuse and Exploitation in Bangladesh (ICPRC)”. The project mainly focused on developing community-based protection mechanisms so that the
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The Millennium Development Goals Report 2015
At the turn of the century, world leaders came together at the United Nations and agreed upon a set of 8 goals, as a pledge to uphold principles of human dignity, equality, and equity. As we reach the end of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) period, t
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Prevent and Protect: Linking the HIV and child protection response to keep children safe, healthy & resilient
In 2013 the Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) on Children and HIV and AIDS completed an analysis of how child protection systems and services affect HIV and AIDS, and vice versa, and provided recommendations on how they could work together to improve each oth
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Save the Children's Position Statement on Families
The word ‘family’ has different meanings to people around the world. Diverse family structures exist in various parts of the world, with the nature of relationships and the power dynamics between men and women, and adults and children, girls and boys vary
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The Children's Resilience Programme: Psychosocial support in and out of schools
The Children’s Resilience Programme: Psychosocial support in and out of school was developed in 2010 by Save the Children Denmark and the Psychosocial Centre of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. The programme is a noncl
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Situation Assessment on Care and Protection Needs of Children of Sex Workers and Children Affected by HIV/AIDS
The objective of this study was to generate a clear understanding of the care and protection needs of two extremely vulnerable groups of children, children of sex workers (ChSW’s) and children infected/affected by HIV/AIDS. An additional objective was to