Africa's orphan crisis

Two community-based models of care

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19440164
AutoresRachel Kidman (0000-0001-7202-5571, McGill University, autor de correspondencia), S E Petrow (b Public Health Consultant , Watertown , MA), Steven Petrow (Massachusetts Department of Public Health), Jody Heymann (0000-0003-0008-4198, McGill University), S J Heymann (a McGill University , Montreal , Canada)
Año2007
Volumen19
Número3
Páginas326-329
Fecha de publicación2007-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAIDS Care (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0954-0121 • E-ISSN: 1360-0451
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09540120600608396
PMID17453565
OpenAlexW1977929134
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas17
Referencias citadas9

The AIDS epidemic has created a crisis for children, severely threatening the health and development of children whose parents are ill, have died and whose communities have lost a large percentage of their adults. Even when extended family can serve as guardians, their need to work in the context of widespread poverty decreases the amount of time they are able to spend with children. Other children live in child-headed households or with seniors unable to provide adequate care. Relative to the size of the need there are few interventions that provide support to orphans in sub-Saharan Africa. We report on two different models of community-based care that have emerged to fill this caregiving gap, and highlight the relative advantages of each. These programmes, one centralized and the other decentralized, are an effective means of caring for orphans and could be scaled up in other communities to meet the magnitude of the crisis

Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Health care · Political science · Poverty · Psychological intervention · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine · Nursing · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare