This edition of the IFCO Informer focuses on the effects of HIV/AIDS on families and suggests ways in which foster care solutions can mitigate the impacts of the epidemic on children. Major articles illustrate how this disease is affecting millions of human lives in countries such as Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, the Ivory Coast, India, and The Netherlands. These articles highlight the systematic inadequacies of childcare in institutions and children’s homes and stress the importance of family- and community-based alternatives for children affected HIV/AIDS. This special focus concludes with a list of websites, resources, and guides to provide a framework for further inquiry.
Other short articles focus on foster care experiences coming from a foster daughter (Canada) and from foster parents (Venezuela), as well as an article about anger. This publication also contains information about some of IFCO’s ongoing projects.
Relevant article titles include:
- Anger: Bad Behavior or Psychiatric Symptom?
- A Canadian Foster Care Story
- IFCO Statement and Proposal on Children affected by HIV/AIDS
- Children and AIDS
- The AIDS Scourge in Ghana
- Children Infected and Affected by HIV/AIDS in South Africa
- Orphans Versus HIV in Kenya
- An African Experience
- Child Prostitution
- AIDS Why / SIDA Pourquoi, youth poem from the Ivory Coast
- An Asian Experience: IFCO experience shared in India
- Websites on children and AIDS
- Our Experience as a Foster Family by Hugo and Sharon Castro
- Updates on IFCO projects : Quality4Children
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