This book was a project developed based on a global survey to assess children’s mental health and psychosocial needs during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Mmata Tswana (My Partner) - Community Caregiver Support Groups to Improve ART Adherence Amongst Adolescents Living with HIV
The Mmata Tswana model is a community caregiver support group model which offers an opportunity for caregivers to:
- Meet, discuss and learn from one another about ART adherence and caring for adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV);
- Provide psychosocial support to one another;
- Offer general care-giving support to one another by, for example accompanying each other’s children for scheduled appointments, as well as assisting them with treatment as necessary; and
- Create a community of knowledge about adolescents’ treatment and health needs to minimise the risks associated with loss to follow-up when a caregiver is unable to take care of an adolescent.
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RIATT-ESA Advocacy Brief - Stigma and Discrimination on Adolescents Living with HIV.
Policy Brief: Evidence for improving psychosocial outcomes for children affected by HIV/AIDS
Why is this issue important?
•HIV/AIDS places children at risk for poor social, emotional and mental health outcomes.
• There is a great deal of funding dedicated to addressing this issue, but very little evidence about what works to improve psychosocial outcomes for these children.
• In 2009, a systematic review could not identify any study that had adequately evaluated an intervention to improve psychosocial well-being for AIDS-affected children.
• This lack of evidence means that we don’t know how programmes or interventions work to improve child outcomes, if they are reaching the most vulnerable, or even if they are having unintended negative effect