A description selected interventions for the care of orphans and vulnerable children in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2004
TITLE AUTHOR(S): P.K.Dlamini
KEYWORDS: BOTSWANA, CHILDREN, ORPHANS, ZIMBABWE
DEPARTMENT: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 3059
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/7746
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/7746
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Abstract
Through several large-scale research projects, the Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health Research Programme generates knowledge on the following issues: The social epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in South Africa and sub-Saharan region. Key socio-cultural, psychological, political, economic and demographic determinants that increase or reduce vulnerability to HIV infection. Public health. Human development and health. Performance of health systems. Cost-effectiveness and costing of health services. Demographic and epidemiological projections of various health problems.-
Related Research Outputs:
- The W.K. Kellogg Foundation's orphans and vulnerable children project: interventions in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe
- The use of implementation research networks on orphans and vulnerable children to encourage research-driven policies: the case of Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe
- The development, implementation and evaluation of interventions for the care of orphans and vulnerable children in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe: A literature review of evidence-based interventions for home-based child-centred development
- A census of orphaned and vulnerable children in two villages in Botswana
- A census of orphans and vulnerable children in two Zimbabawean districts
- A qualitative assessment of orphans and vulnerable children in two Zimbabwean districts
- Situational analysis of the socioeconomic conditions of orphans and vulnerable children in seven districts in Botswana
- Overview of the WK Kellogg Foundation's project on OVC - Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe
- Sickness, death and poverty - our bequest to orphans
- Slipping through the safety net
- Impact of HIV/AIDS on SADC countries: recommendations to funders
- Southern Africa: a review of the region
- Globalization and emerging trends in African states' foreign policy-making process
- Limits to liberation in Southern Africa: the unfinished business of democratic consolidation
- Child-headed households: dissecting our understanding of who is at risk
- What does it take to care?
- An audit of HIV/AIDS policies in Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe
- Defining orphaned and vulnerable children
- A census report of orphaned and vulnerable children in two South African communities
- Working to support orphans and vulnerable children in southern Africa: a reflection on values, principles and organisational issues