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Children and AIDS Fourth Stocktaking Report calls attention to children and young people living in a world with HIV and AIDS. It comes four years after the launch of Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS, an initiative dedicated to putting children at the heart of the global AIDS response. The Stocktaking Report, a joint effort of UNICEF,UNAIDS, WHO and UNFPA, reflects on progress thus far for children, and offers authoritative data, evidence and recommendations on how to accelerate action at all levels.
In 2005, the epidemic’s consequences prompted UNICEF, the Joint United Nations…
Public Law 109-95, the Assistance for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children in Developing Countries Act of 2005 (herein after referred to as PL 109-95), was signed into law four years ago to respond to the global orphans and vulnerable children crisis. It calls for the U.S. Government (USG) response to the crisis to be comprehensive, coordinated and effective.
U.S. Government and Partners: Working Together on a Comprehensive, Coordinated and Effective Response to Highly Vulnerable Children: Third Annual Report to Congress on Public Law 109-95 provides global…
While progress is being made in reducing some violations of children’s rights, not enough is yet known about the extent of abuses against children. Violence and exploitation remain a harsh reality in the lives of many children around the world.
Millions of boys and girls around the world are subject to trafficking, are without parental care, or lack documentation they need to attend school and access basic health care. Millions more are forced to work under harmful conditions, while others face violence or abuse in their homes, in their schools, in their communities, in institutions or…
HIV can no longer be considered as a new or emerging disease in sub-Saharan Africa. More than two decades on from the start of the epidemic, several countries in Africa have maturing HIV epidemics with stable or declining incidence. During the HIV epidemic, families and households have continued to be formed and built, and have survived and dissolved, bearing and rearing children. They pass through various life-cycle stages while continuing to function as the primary units of reproduction and production.
Children who survived the risk of contracting HIV through mother-to-child…
WHAT: Guidance on the development of monitoring and evaluation indicators for child protection, education, health and HIV, and hunger programs. Includes an overview of expected outcomes for each program area, and presents a detailed table of outcome indicators per each outcome. It also provides good practice examples of impact indicators.
WHO: Program managers and social and community workers involved with child care and protection, especially those with program monitoring and evaluation responsibilities.
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Since 2004, the Progress for Children series has published important data and analyses on global progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals. The monitoring that UNICEF and its partners have undertaken reveals some remarkable progress. For the first time, annual global deaths of children under age five fell below the 10 million mark, to 9.7 million. This represents a 60 per cent reduction in the under-five mortality rate since 1960.
Major improvements in the coverage of a number of key child survival interventions, including measles immunization, vitamin A…
Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS was launched in October 2005 with the goal of putting the ‘missing face’ of children at the centre of the global HIV/AIDS agenda. In the year since, the world’s response to protect and support AIDS-affected children remains tragically insufficient. But in important and positive ways, that is beginning to change.
This report takes stock of some of the most important actions and changes for children affected by HIV/AIDS that have taken place in the first year of this campaign. The report finds that children and AIDS had by 2006 become more…
Data coverage
The 2006 version of the database contains 146 economic and social indicators divided into ten different topics. In some cases, absolute data are available in addition to calculated rates. Data generally covers the period 1989-2004/5.
Data sources
Most data are collected directly from national statistical offices using a standardized template. Additional data are also obtained from other international organizations or are calculated by UNICEF IRC. Data may therefore not correspond to those in other UNICEF publications.
Data…
This report presents the survey Kevin Browne and colleagues conducted in 33 European countries to identify the number and characteristics of children less than three placed in residential care without their parents for more than three months during the year ending December 31, 2003. The purpose was to assess the rate and cost of residential care as a response to children in adversity. The provision of services to prevent child abuse, neglect, and abandonment was also assessed.
Ministries of Health in Europe were asked for official data, and of the 31 countries that responded it was…
In this report an attempt is made to address the issues that were defined in the terms of reference of the Working Group on Children at Risk and in Care.
The report starts with a discussion on the effect of institutionalisation on children and society at large. This is followed by an overview of the situation in Europe in terms of placement of children in residential care. Three distinct categories are identified: states with high rate of child residential care coupled with large institutions (Central and Eastern Europe); states with low rate of residential care and large institutions (…