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This report attempts to identify strategies, lines of action and innovative approaches to respond to the needs of young children faced by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Key issues addressed in the workshop and report are around obstacles that prevent the provision of appropriate services, key issues that affect young children, and the cultural and religious causes of discrimination. It suggests principles that should be observed in programming in this area, ways of advocating for the needs of young children affected by HIV/AIDS, and ways of moving forward by developing an action plan

This report was prepared for the Fifth E-9 Ministerial meeting in Cairo in 2003. The E-9 countries of this report are: Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria and Pakistan. International support for early childhood development and education is based on research findings that the development of the brain occurs primarily in the early years of life. Resources dedicated to this subject area bring multiple benefits to society and the community as well as to the child and his or her family. With respect to improving comprehensive early childhood care and education for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children, it is this very target group who benefit more than children from favourable family backgrounds. Childcare needs feature highly in the development and education of a child, and are affected by factors such as poor health and low literacy rates in the mothers. Each of the countries have developed mechanisms for tackling early childhood development, and a high priority amonst each of these mechanims is to focus on equity (p.47), with children from disadvantaged backgrounds being primary target groups

Early childhood intervention is a strategy that can promote inclusive education leading to a deeper understanding by the general public on disability. Targeted at early development programmes and interventions to include disabled children