While impressive progress has been made in the last decade, much work remains. Our sixth biennial symposium, which took place immediately prior to the AIDS 2016 conference in Durban, South Africa, addressed this important question:
With the epidemic still negatively affecting such vast numbers of children, adolescents and families, how do we ensure that we include those most in need, those most often missed, forgotten, or excluded—those who aren’t benefitting from traditional policies, funding and programming?
During the two day agenda, service providers, donors, researchers, advocates and policy leaders explored emerging evidence and promising programs to identify the issues and the children who most need our support.
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Presentations from the Symposium are listed below in alphabetical order by last name of presenter.
Collaboration between PMTCT and key population programs: the key in reaching eMTCT among key populations
Night Joseph Baguma, PASADA, Tanzania
Taking Programming for Young Vulnerable Children into the SDG Era
Pia Britto, UNICEF
Investigating the psychosocial support needs of children of key populations
Michael Byamukama, REPSSI, Uganda
Parenting as an Injecting Drug User
Jude Byrne, AIVL, Australia
The role of mom to mom volunteers in retaining clients in PMTCT clinic
Tegemea Chanafi, PASADA, Tanzania
Acceptability and feasibility of acomprehensive, community-based, multicomponent intervention on early childhood development, adherence and retention in pediatric HIV care and treatment programs in Zimbabwe
Rudo Chingono, CeSHHAR, Zimbabwe
Responding to the psychosocial needs of children and adolescents living with HIV
Trevor Chirimambowa, Million Memory Project, Zimbabwe
Mitigating the impact of HIV on young children
Adele Clark, Catholic Relief Services, USA
Cash plus care: what is the evidence for improving PMTCT, pediatric and adolescent treatment outcomes?
Lucie Cluver, Oxford University, UK and University of Cape Town, South Africa
Reducing child abuse for AIDS affected adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa
Lucie Cluver, Oxford University, UK and University of Cape Town, South Africa
Violence victimization doubles adolescent ART-defaulting in South Africa
Lucie Cluver, Oxford University, UK and University of Cape Town, South Africa
Framing the Debates: Equity and Priority Setting–Who Comes First and at What Cost?
Chris Desmond, HSRC, South Africa & The Coalition for Children Affected by AIDS
Children Left Behind: Treatment and Deliveries of Care Innovations
Vuyiseka Dubula, Human Rights and Gender activist & former General Secretary, Treatment Action Campaign, South Africa
Mothers for the Future program
Duduzile Dlamini, SWEAT, South Africa
Sex workers and their children – a conversation on community and facility responses
Duduzile Dlamini, SWEAT, South Africa
Sally Jean Shackleton, SWEAT, South Africa
Maternal characteristics of women with HIV+ infants I South Africa
Geoffrey Fatti, Kheth’Impilo, South Africa
The effectiveness of an early child development training intervention for caregivers of HIV-affected households in South Africa
Geoffrey Fatti, Kheth’Impilo, South Africa
Building robust platforms for integrating ECD into the health sector by expanding the evidence base and strengthening the enabling environment: Insights from Kenya and Mozambique
Matthew Frey, PATH, USA
Integrating ECD into Healthcare Settings
Tom Fenn, Catholic Relief Services, USA
Shannon Senefeld, Catholic Relief Services, USA
Strengthening the linkages between child protection and HIV programmes
Sian Long, 4Children, USA
Kelley Bunkers, 4Children, USA
The C3 Connection: Cultivating change through clinic-CBO collaboration
Luann Hatane, Pediatric AIDS Treatment for Africa, South Africa
Community-driven accountability through women’s advocacy committees: a vehicle for improving reproductive and maternal health services for women living with HIV
Steven Iphani, Coalition of Women Living with HIV and AIDS (COWLHA), Malawi
Positive norms change: promising approaches for addressing the underlying drivers of sexual violence against children
Susan Kajura, World Education Inc/Bantwana Initiative, Uganda
Preventing HIV in young women-key to sustaining the successes of the Global Plan to eliminate HIV in children & keep mothers alive
Quarraisha Abdool Karim, CAPRISA, South Africa
Improving child and caregiver experiences in health facility waiting rooms in Mozambique through integrated play sessions: lessons learned from a qualitative evaluation
Svetlana Karuskina-Drivdale, PATH, Mozambique
Lessons learned in Scaling up Paediatric& Adolescent HIV Care & Treatment in a Resource Limited Setting: THe Expanded IMPACT Program
Rickie Malaba, World Education Inc/Batwana, Zimbabwe
Support to children living with HIV and AIDS in Shinyanga Region
Deozawadi Marandu, Agape AIDS Control Program, Tanzania
Learning from the past to inform the future: establishing definitions, tools and guidance to promote responsible graduation of children and households within OVC programming
Carrie Miller, Catholic Relief Services, USA
Early directional findings of global working group on children of key populations
John Miller, Coalition for Children Affected by AIDS, Canada
The ACCLAIM Project: Improved clinical outcomes and implementation experiences
Dephin Mpofu, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Swaziland
Masimba Mupezeni, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Zimbabwe
The TAFU Project: Improving Paediatric HIV & AIDS prevention and care outcomes by creating strong linkages between comminity and healthcare systems
Merian Musinguzi, ICCO Cooperation, Uganda
Feasibility and effectiveness of positive parenting interventions in reducing HIV incidence among adolescent girls and young women from grandparent headed households
Precious Muwoni, World Education Inc/Bantwana Initiative, Zimbabwe
Reaching all children – through their schools
Lynette Mudekunye, REPSSI, South Africa
Kelvin Ngoma, REPSSI, Zambia
Children of people who use drugs in Kenya: Hidden lives
James Ndimbii, KANCO, Kenya
The issues facing children of HIV-affected gay men and other men who have sex with men in Kenya
Erastus Ndunda, HOYMAS, Kenya
Addressing psychosocial impacts of HIV/AIDS through skilful parenting interventions in East Africa
Beatrice Ogutu, ICS & PAN, Kenya
Don’t ignore the children of sex workers: a situation analysis
Philomena Omoregie, Society for Family Health, Nigeria
Cash transfers and HIV Risk: The impact of large-scale programs on structural determinants of HIV and HIV risk behaviours among youth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Amber Peterman, UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti, UNICEF, Italy
HIV and early childhood developement – new frontiers
Linda Richter, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development, South Africa
One size does not fit all: program approaches need to consider country differences for regional responses – children and HIV as a case in question
Kathryn Roberts, University College London, UK
Clinician skills in screening and counselling on early childhood development and nutrition: findings from Mozambique
Debjeet Sen, PATH, Kenya
Reusable sanitary pad and menstrual education intervention in rural South Africa
Najma Shaikh, Kheth’Impilo, South Africa
Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights program in a rural high school in South Africa: a school-based clinic-linked model for delivery
Najma Shaikh, Kheth’Impilo, South Africaa
Community-based organisations – potential to break the cycle of risk for young children?
Lorraine Sherr, University College London, UK
Boys will be boys? Gender differences in vulnerable children in a community-based study in Malawi and South Africa
Sarah Skeen, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Strengthening government and community based systems to bring comprehensive child health and development services to rural households
Gugulethu Sokhela, PATH, South Africa
Coping with loss: a randomized controlled trial of a structured peer support group for bereaved female adolescents in South Africa
Tonya Thurman, Tulane University & Highly Vulnerable Children Research Center, South Africa
Unleashing the potential of the informal care sector
Mark Tomlinson, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
The multiplier effect of care: Protective sexual practices among HIV-positive adolescents
Elona Toska, Oxford University, UK and Mzantsi Wakho Adolescent Health Research, South Africa
Determinants of school enrolment and absenteeism amongst the most vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS in Uganda: an empirical investigation based on SCORE project’s vulnerability profiling
Patrick Walugembe, FHI360, Uganda
Impact of permagardening intervention on household vegetable consumption and income on highly vulnerable children and their caregivers, Ethiopia
Medhnait Wube, FHI360, Ethiopia
Impact of the better parenting intervention on parental aptitudes and practices
Medhnait Wube, FHI360, Ethiopia
Equity of services – do CBOs reach the most vulnerable children?
Alexa Yakubovich, University of Oxford, UK