As a result of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, there are now more than 12 million orphans in sub-Saharan Africa. The majority of these children have been absorbed into their extended families.

This doctoral thesis by Hye-Young Lim examines the laws around the recognition of child-headed households in South Africa, particularly in the context of HIV/AIDS.

The alternative care assessment examines the current social welfare systems and processes rather than on the specific quality of care in the various children’s homes as standards have already been developed.

Programme of presentations and activities

Collection of abstracts from conference presentations

Summary of conference delegates' declarations and recommendations

This study uses recent data from published studies in sub-Saharan Africa to illustrate deficits and document community responses for children who have lost parents to the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

Summary information on recently published book on community strengthening in response to children needs in context of poverty and AIDS.

This Minimum Standards for Residential Child Care Facilities in Namibia is designed to assist child care service providers, ministerial staff, social welfare partners, and other stakeholders concerned with the quality of child care, to establish, maintain and manage high quality care services for children in Namibia

This research project aimed to contribute to knowledge development in understanding how the social development approach is actually being used by individual schools of social work in Southern and East Africa, and how this approach is impacting social work training, through primary empirical research.