HIV and AIDS/STI and TB Multisectoral Strategic Plan and Implementation Framework 2015 - 2020

EAC HIV and AIDS Strategic Plan.pdf

This strategic plan lays out the strategic intents for East African Community (EAC) HIV and AIDS program for the period 2015-2020. The plan will set the boundaries within which the EAC will implement its HIV and AIDS, TB and STIs interventions within the spheres of its mandate. The costed plan will further be a tool for resource mobilization as well as being a reference point for addressing HIV and AIDS, TB and STIs issues that are trans-boundary in nature within the region.

Specific Objectives of the strategic plan includes: 
• To reduce new cases of HIV by 60%, TB by 50% and STIs by 50% by 2020 in the EAC region
• To reduce HIV and TB related mortality by 75% by 2020 in the EAC region
• To increase access and utilization of integrated HIV, TB and STI services by 50% in 2020 

Even though all Partner States have generalized HIV epidemics, with some of the highest rates of TB infection and disease burden in the world, there are still higher levels of infection and transmission within certain geographic areas, as well as among some key populations and venerable groups. Although this strategic plan promotes a broad framework for addressing HIV, STIs and TB at a general population level, it also identifies priority populations that should be targeted for specific prevention, care, treatment and support interventions based on the analysis of the EAC epidemic. The risk of HIV, STIs or TB is not equal for all populations. In the context of this strategic plan and for the purpose of regional programming, the priority populations include, but it not limited to:

• Adolescent girls and young women
• Migrant populations and mobile workers.
• Orphans and other vulnerable children and adolescents
• People with disabilities
• Young people in and out of school
• Adolescents living with HIV and AIDS
• Infant and young children

This strategic plan makes provision that these populations will be targeted with different, but specific, interventions during implementation to achieve maximum impact. The EAC in collaboration with partner states will ensure geographical mapping and geographical prioritization of interventions for Key and Vulnerable populations for HIV and TB especially for regional aspects of the response.

Reflections on Africa’s Indigenous knowledge on parenting

Indigenous knowledge of parenting.pdf

The publication  by PAN presents snapshots of indigenous parenting practices of different communities in Africa. 

Africa is blessed with diverse cultures and tribes, these rich traditions play a critical part in shaping the lives of communities and the family unit.

Indigenous positive parenting practices in Africa are under threat because of modernisation. People are moving to the cities, and the close community, and family ties of the past, is under pressure. In this Brochure, you see highlight, how the pastoralist community of the Gabra and the Maasai people in Kenya, East and the horn of Africa region; Bozo community in Mali, West Africa; Ndebele of South Africa, and the Swahili of the coastal strip of Africa parented. 

Violence against primary school children with disabilities in Uganda: a cross-sectional study

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Devries 2014 Good Schools disability.pdf

150 million children live with disabilities globally, and a recent systematic review found 3 to 4 times the levels of violence versus non-disabled children in high income countries. However, almost nothing is known about violence against disabled children in lower income countries. This research aims to explore the prevalence, patterns and risk factors for physical, sexual and emotional violence among disabled children attending primary school in Luwero District, Uganda.

In Uganda, disabled girls are at particular risk of violence, notably sexual violence. Schools may be a promising venue for intervention delivery. Further research on the epidemiology and prevention of violence against disabled and non-disabled children in low income countries is urgently needed.

Devries et al.: Violence against primary school
children with disabilities in Uganda: a cross-sectional study. BMC Public
Health 2014 14:1017.

THE STATE OF THE WORLD’S CHILDREN 2015: Executive Summary

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The State of the Worlds Children.pdf

As the world marks 25 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, The State of the World’s Children calls for brave and fresh thinking to address age-old problems that still affect the most disadvantaged children. In particular, the report calls for innovation – and for the best and brightest solutions coming from communities to be taken to scale to benefit every child. #EVERYchild

SOURCE:
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) The State of the World’s Children 2015: Reimagine the Future: Innovation for Every Child digital report is available at www.data.unicef.org

East African Community Regional HIV and AIDS Response Report 2013

EAC Regional HIV and AIDS Response Report-Popular Version.pdf

Related resource: 

HIV and AIDS/STI and TB Multisectoral Strategic Plan and Implementation Framework 2015 - 2020

Realizing the regional Goals in HIV and AIDS, TB and STI programming.

The East African Community Regional HIV and AIDS Response Report 2013 is a first-of-its-kind consolidated reference on the status, trends and response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic in the EAC region. It is envisaged as a tool to assess progress made in reaching national, regional, continental and global commitments on the HIV epidemic. 

This report is designed to generate evidence which will form the basis for re programming the EAC response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic in pursuit of an early achievement of zero new infections, zero AIDS deaths and zero stigma and discrimination, and, to provide information necessary to support the region’s advocacy and resource mobilization efforts in this regard.

East African Community Regional HIV and AIDS Response Report 2013

EAC Regional HIV and AIDS Response Report-Popular Version.pdf

Related resource: 

HIV and AIDS/STI and TB Multisectoral Strategic Plan and Implementation Framework 2015 - 2020

Realizing the regional Goals in HIV and AIDS, TB and STI programming.

The East African Community Regional HIV and AIDS Response Report 2013 is a first-of-its-kind consolidated reference on the status, trends and response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic in the EAC region. It is envisaged as a tool to assess progress made in reaching national, regional, continental and global commitments on the HIV epidemic. 

This report is designed to generate evidence which will form the basis for re programming the EAC response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic in pursuit of an early achievement of zero new infections, zero AIDS deaths and zero stigma and discrimination, and, to provide information necessary to support the region’s advocacy and resource mobilization efforts in this regard.