Washington D.C., USA, 22-27 July 2012www.aids2012.org

Track D Social Science, Human Rights and Political Science

Lead Rapporteur: Bagele Chilisa

(Assisted by Leickness Simbayi)

Rapporteurs: Ian Hodgson

Lucie Cluver Richard Wolitski

Tirelo Modie Felicita Hikuam

Marija Pantelic Elona Toseka

Danielle Haley Shandir Ramlagan

Rebecca Kubanji Morten Skovdal

Washington D.C., USA, 22-27 July 2012www.aids2012.org

Children and adolescents:the missing link?

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Washington D.C., USA, 22-27 July 2012www.aids2012.org

Review of evaluations: PEPFAR’s programs for orphans and vulnerable children

• 18 Evaluations, 22 Programs• 9 Countries – Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique,

Rwanda, Namibia, Zambia, South Africa and Haiti

Example: Child Protection impacts, measured in 16 of 18 Studies• Home-based visits and household economic strengthening

reduce child abuse, stigma and social isolation • Psychosocial interventions targeting guardians often

benefited orphans and vulnerable children as well • Children whose homes had been visited by a volunteer were

more likely to have a birth certificate (36% of all children had birth certificates)

• Home visitor training was associated with improved outcomes

Washington D.C., USA, 22-27 July 2012www.aids2012.org

Healthy family AIDS-sick parent Abused & hungry AIDS-sick parent, abused, hungry

1%

7%

13%

57%

% girls aged 15-24 reporting transactional sex Cluver et al (2011) JAIDS

no hunger, no abuse

Child transactional sex in South Africa driven by social risks: parental HIV/AIDS, child abuse and hunger

Washington D.C., USA, 22-27 July 2012www.aids2012.org

“We invest so much in keeping children alive in the first decade of life. We must not lose them in

the second.”

Anthony Lake

Executive Director, UNICEF

Washington D.C., USA, 22-27 July 2012www.aids2012.org

Key populations and the law

Washington D.C., USA, 22-27 July 2012www.aids2012.org

Law and policy have the ability to further marginalise and silence populations living with, affected by and most at risk of HIV. The voice and presence of sex workers and drug users is lacking at this conference, as a direct result of laws that criminalise consensual adult behaviours

Washington D.C., USA, 22-27 July 2012www.aids2012.org

Man et al. Analysis of political governance as a determinant of ART coverage using country level data

Washington D.C., USA, 22-27 July 2012www.aids2012.org

Efficacy of Combined Sexual and Injection Risk Reduction Interventions for Female Sex Workers on the

Mexico-US Border: Differential Effects in the Presence of a Community-wide Structural Intervention

Washington D.C., USA, 22-27 July 2012www.aids2012.org

We have realized that social science, biomedical science,

advocacy and community programming must work

together if we are to turn the tide.

We have to turn the tide together

Thank You.