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This is the report of an evaluation study into the feasibility, acceptability and implications of improving infant feeding counselling and introducing voluntary counselling and testing into a low-resource ante-natal care/mother and child health clinic setting, where women did not at the time have access to short-course antiretrovirals to reduce vertical transmission

This working paper illustrates the "Situationsansatz" pedagogical framework, as implemented at Kita, a childcare centre in Berlin. The emphasis is on children's environments, children's participation and optimal learning. The key principles of the "Contextual Child Development Approach" include: recognising the learning potential of diverse cultural heritages and intercultural interaction, developing close relations with the social environment and adopting an open planning process, with the contribution of children, parents and other adults. Includes an appendix, which briefly outlines the guidelines for working with the Contextual Child Development Approach in childcare centres

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

The HIV/AIDS epidemic affects directly more than 200,000 Namibians. The Ministry of Health and Social Services is mounting an antiretroviral therapy programme to extend access to drug therapy, reduce AIDS mortality rates, improve HIV-positive people's quality of life and produce savings to the health care system. These guidelines aim to assist health practitioners in the implementation of the programme. It identifies standards and best practices for the administration of anti-retroviral drugs to adults, pregnant women and children, and provides essential medical information on ART and treatment options

Traces the progress of children and parents involved in a pre-school programme designed to ease the integration Ethiopian Jews into Israeli society

Training pack for training providers who interact with postabortion clients. It will enable them to use communicaiton and counseling skills to assess the client's needs; listen to her concers, answer her questions, give her information about the procedure, and help her make decisions about family planning, STI and HIV prevention and other reproductive health services