Beyond the ratifications of international and regional child rights instruments, as well as promulgation of impeccable laws, realization of children’s rights will not be actualized until adequate public resources are availed.
Policy Brief for the UN HIV High Level Meeting: 8-10 June 2021
COVID-19: Potential impact on the world’s poorest people
Mitigating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on food and nutrition of schoolchildren
This interim guidance note intends to provide government decision makers, school administrators/staff and partners with preliminary guidance on how to support, transform or adapt school feeding (in the short term) to help safeguard schoolchildren’s food security and nutrition during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Questions and Answers for Adolescents living with HIV in time of COVID-19
This Q+A was developed by UNICEF ESARO in partnership with Y+ Global and country-level networks of adolescents and young people living with HIV (A&YPLHIV) in Eastern and Southern Africa.
All In, in Eastern and Southern Africa
Children’s voices in times of COVID-19, by World Vision
My Hero is You, Storybook for Children on COVID-19
Identifying & Mitigating Gender-based Violence Risks within the COVID-19 Response
Leaving no-one behind: WFP's approach to HIV-sensitive social protection
We’ve got the power — Women, adolescent girls and the HIV response
This report by UNAIDS, We’ve got the power, was released ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March. It reveals that despite progress in key areas such as school enrollment, political participation and scaling up of HIV treatment, many of the promises made to improve the lives of women and girls have not been kept.
Power to the people
The Violent Truth about Teenage Pregnancy
The State of Funding for Children in SADC Report
The Africa Funding Landscape: A Profile of Funders Focused on Africa and Perspectives on the Field
For Every Child, Every Right- The Convention of the Rights of the Child at a Crossroads
There have been historic gains overall for the world’s children in the past 30 years. However, many of the poorest children are yet to feel the impact, says a new UNICEF report. This report is intended as an advocacy tool to both celebrate the achievements of the past three decades and generate dialogue on the critical work that remains.
Annual Review of South African Philantrophy
RIATT-ESA 2019-2022 Strategy
In 2018 RIATT-ESA carried-out a strategic planning exercise to review the course of the epidemic and the gaps in the children’s response in policy and programmes in the region. The new RIATT-ESA Strategy aims to address the gaps in the HIV response by responding to specific drivers of the resurgence of HIV infection among children, youth and young key populations.
Regional study of vulnerability amongst schoolboys, aged 14 - 20 in South Africa
Evidence-based practices for retention in care of mother-infant pairs in the context of eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Eastern and Southern Africa
Countries in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) have made remarkable progress in scaling up treatment for pregnant women living with HIV and reducing new infections among children. Estimates from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS indicate that 93 per cent of pregnant women living with HIV in ESA received antiretroviral medicines in 2017. Thanks to an accelerated response over the years in this region, the number of children who acquired HIV has been reduced by more than 1.2 million since 2009. This represents 80 per cent of the global reduction in new infections among children during that period.
However, one of the key challenges remaining to eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV is the retention of mothers and infants in care through the end of breastfeeding. Mothers and their infants in this region continue to face significant challenges as they navigate the health care system over extended periods of time.
This important review examines the bottlenecks to retention in care of mother-infant pairs and makes recommendations based on evidence-based practices to reduce those barriers.