Context
The HIV and AIDS pandemic has dramatic consequences for families and children all over the world. Every day 1,400 children under 15 die of an AIDS-related illness and more than 6,000 young people aged 15–24 are infected with HIV. Yet less than 5% of the 3 million children with HIV or AIDS are getting treatment. Over 14 million children under the age of 15 have already lost one or both parents to AIDS, the vast majority of them in sub-Saharan Africa. By 2010, the number of children orphaned by AIDS globally is expected to exceed 25 million. But that is just a fraction of the number of children whose lives will have been radically altered by the impact HIV and AIDS have had on their families, communities, schools, health care and welfare systems, and local and national economies. This problem requires more and better interventions. With its OVC projects, STOP AIDS NOW! aims to develop innovative strategies. It also supports the up-scaling of existing interventions.
The OVC Development Project
The OVC Development Project helps partnerships of non-governmental, community-based and faith-based organisations to jointly develop innovative strategies that will improve the well-being of orphans and vulnerable children. This project focuses on 2 themes: "Effective prevention of HIV infection" and "Strengthening mechanisms in communities to provide comprehensive protection, care and support for OVC". OVC partnerships are active in South Africa and Malawi.
Children Affected by AIDS (CABA) Working Group
The CABA Working Group consists of Dutch child-centred and HIV/AIDS organisations. These organisations have joined forces to exchange knowledge as well as to advocate and lobby for issues around children and HIV and AIDS. To learn more about their work click here.
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