Publications
Eight corporate responses to children, young people and AIDS: a 'win-win' guide
Few business leaders realize that the cost of addressing the disease within the workplace is significantly less than the price of doing nothing. This booklet is designed to help the private sector take steps to help reduce the burden and impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on children and young people in China and beyond. This 'win-win' 26-page, English-language guide describes eight steps that corporations can take to help protect and support children and their parents to prevent HIV and AIDS becoming an even bigger development and economic challenge. It was written with reference to corporate sustainability and the situation of AIDS in China but may be useful in other contexts too.
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Africa's Orphaned Generations
The chilling consequences of the HIV/AIDS epidemic are documented in this 52-page report, which provides new data and analysis on sub-Saharan Africa's 11 million orphaned children and the households in which they live. Although the epidemic has pushed many families beyond their ability to cope, the report argues that immediate action can ensure that the continent's orphaned children are safe, healthy and educated. It encourages hope in the face of an epic disaster.
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A Call for Action: Children The Missing Face of AIDS
AIDS has been a focus of international concern for more than two decades. Yet its impact on children has been little considered. The numbers of children affected were not even counted until recently. The world must act now, urgently and decisively, to ensure that the next generation of children is AIDS-free. Find out what the UNITE FOR CHILDREN UNITE AGAINST AIDS Campaign is all about.
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Africa's Orphaned Generations
The chilling consequences of the HIV/AIDS epidemic are documented in this 52-page report, which provides new data and analysis on sub-Saharan Africa's 11 million orphaned children and the households in which they live. Although the epidemic has pushed many families beyond their ability to cope, the report argues that immediate action can ensure that the continent's orphaned children are safe, healthy and educated. It encourages hope in the face of an epic disaster.
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Children on the Brink 2004: A joint report of new orphan estimates and a framework for action
Millions of children are growing up without parents. Millions more are in households with family members sick or dying from AIDS; children in sub-Saharan African have been hardest hit. Children on the Brink 2004 presents the latest statistics on historical, current and projected numbers of children under 18 who have been orphaned by AIDS and other causes. This edition of the biannial report underscores the changing needs of this vulnerable group as they progress through adolescence and calls for the urgent development and expansion of family and community support.
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Children on the Brink 2002: A Joint Report on Orphan Estimates and Program Strategies
This publication contains statistics on children orphaned by HIV/AIDS from 88 countries, analysis of the trends found in those statistics, and strategies and principles for helping the children. This document covers 1990 to 2010 and provides the broadest and most comprehensive statistics yet on the historical, current and projected number of children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. It also stresses that the growing needs of other children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS must be met.
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Children Orphaned by AIDS
A calamitous effect of the AIDS pandemic is the vast numbers of children orphaned by the disease. Some 13.2 million children have lost their mother or both parents to AIDS – 95 per cent of these children are living in Africa. As the projects described in this report make clear, stronger commitments and sustainable efforts are urgently needed by the families, communities and children on the front line of this epic struggle. Human, financial and organizational resources are needed on a massive scale if affected countries are to prevent this crisis from completely overwhelming health, education and other basic services and from breaking down millions more families.
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Children, Armed Conflict and HIV/AIDS
Conflict creates and exacerbates the conditions - and the human rights abuses - in which the HIV/AIDS crisis flourishes. One third of the some 14 million children currently under age 15 who have lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS live in countries recently affected by armed conflict. This fact sheet outlines the scale of the problem and the key strategies being used by UNICEF and partners to prevent new infections and care for those affected by the pandemic.
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Facing the Future Together: Report of the Secretary-General's Task Force on Women, Girls and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa
The great majority of young people aged 15-24 living with AIDS in Southern Africa are female. This report documents the realities of life for the thousands of women and girls living there who struggle to keep their families together and care for the sick as the pandemic continues to devastate their lives and economies. It calls for an end to the pervasive gender inequality that is key to propelling the spread of HIV among women. The report presents valuable empirical data on the scale and character of the pandemic in the nine countries in Southern Africa with the highest HIV prevalence rates, identifying six areas where urgent intervention is needed and calling for a shift in how women are perceived and treated.
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Facts for Life
One of the world‘s most widely read books, with over 15 million copies of previous editions in use in 215 languages, Facts for Life has helped to save the lives of millions of children by putting lifesaving knowledge about children‘s health into the hands of those who need it most: parents, caregivers, health workers, government officials, journalists and teachers. Facts for Life is a joint effort of UNICEF, WHO, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNDP, UNAIDS, WFP and the World Bank.
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Fighting HIV/AIDS: Strategies for success 2002-2005
As HIV/AIDS spreads through nations, it disproportionately affects the world's most vulnerable: women, adolescents and children. Those affected are routinely denied their rights to education, economic opportunity and health care, and to protection from exploitation and harm. This publication looks at the global development challenge posed by HIV/AIDS and the lessons already learned through UNICEF's work on the pandemic, before setting out goals and priorities for continuing, human rights-based action to combat its spread.
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Girls, HIV/AIDS and Education
Providing good-quality basic education and skills-based prevention education is fundamental to reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS, particularly for girls. Girls are at greater risk of contracting the disease, bear a disproportionate share of its burden and comprise the majority of new infections globally. Yet, because of persistent gender disparity, they are often denied an education and thus protection against infection. This joint project with The Global Coalition on Women and AIDS, provides graphic and tabular evidence that links sexual knowledge/behaviour and educational level among young people. It outlines three priorities that support schools in protecting girls and mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS: getting and keeping girls in school; proving life skills-based education; and protecting girls from gender-based school violence.
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Poverty Reduction Begins with Children
Despite unprecedented global prosperity, a staggering 40 per cent of all children in developing countries – over half a billion – are struggling to survive on less than $1 per day. Poverty is the main underlying cause of millions of preventable child deaths each year. It is the cause of tens of millions of children going hungry, missing out on school or being forced into child labour. Poverty causes lifelong damage to children's minds and bodies, perpetuating the cycle of poverty across generations. This is why poverty reduction must begin with the protection and realization of the human rights of children. Investments in children are the best guarantee for achieving equitable and sustainable human development. This document describes how children bear the brunt of poverty and explains why they are central to poverty reduction. It illustrates how UNICEF's efforts contribute to poverty reduction and the fulfilment of human rights.
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Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: Do they matter for children and young people made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS?
Focusing on four priority areas of HIV/AIDS intervention, this UNICEF/World Bank desk review assesses how HIV/AIDS is being addressed in sub-Saharan Africa's Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers and National Strategic HIV/AIDS Plans. It concludes that few countries have the factors necessary for their successful implementation, and that overall, key global goals and commitments related to HIV/AIDS have not been systematically reflected. Recognizing the inherent limitations of a desk review, the report outlines challenges to ensuring PRSPs' relevance to AIDS-affected children and young people and recommends follow-up field study.
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Profiting from abuse
The commercial sexual exploitation of children assumes many forms and has many faces. Children are enslaved by a chain of actors, all of whom profit in some way. This report, a winner of the prestigious Notable Government Documents Award given by the Library Journal of the American Library Association in 2002, is a tribute to the courage of the many children who have been affected by this inhuman trade. It presents the moving words of the children themselves, as well as the passionate and informed opinions of distinguished personalities and authorities. Part of the growing chorus of committed and outspoken people coalescing around this burning subject, they speak of the measures needed to counter it, as well as their commitments to ending it.
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Progress since the World Summit for Children - A Statistical Review
In 2000, an exhaustive and exacting end-decade review of progress towards the goals of the World Summit for Children was undertaken. This publication presents, in data and global trends, the results of this largest-ever effort to survey, extract, measure and analyse information on how well the world has kept its promises to children and women. The review has drawn on a range of sources and materials never before available, the result of the efforts governments made to strengthen reporting mechanisms on children and data collection systems over the course of the 1990s. In addition, nearly 150 countries also prepared substantive national progress reports. Good statistics enable us to look more closely, see more clearly and act more conscientiously. Improved statistics are vital to changing the world for and with children.
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Towards a World Fit for Children: Report on follow-up to the UNGA Special Session on Children in the countries of the International Organization of la Francophonie (Official Summary)
This summary assesses progress made by member and observer countries of the International Organization of la Francophonie since the UN Special Session on Children in May 2002. It highlights plans of action and strategies adopted by these countries to improve children’s well-being over the course of this decade. The summary also covers the situation of children in Francophonie countries, particularly in four priority areas: promoting healthy lives; providing quality education; protecting against abuse, exploitation and violence; and combating HIV/AIDS. The full report is available in French only.
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UNICEF's Priorities for Children 2002-2005
This booklet is an overview of UNICEF's Medium-term strategic plan for the period 2002-2005. UNICEF is organizing its programmes, partnerships, alliances, advocacy work and internal operations around five organizational priorities — girls' education, integrated early childhood development, immunization 'plus', fighting HIV/AIDS, and protecting children from violence, abuse, exploitation and discrimination. These priorities, the context of the plan, and objectives and indicators are detailed here.The full text of UNICEF's Medium-term strategic plan is available as the UNICEF Executive Board document ICEF/2001/13.
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We the Children
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's We the Children is a landmark review of the progress made in meeting the commitments of the 1990 World Summit for Children. An essential reference and guide for anyone interested in development, the report assesses the decade's achievements and its setbacks, highlights best practices and lessons learned, describes the obstacles to progress, and makes recommendations for further action. The accompanying Statistical Review presents the most recent data on children's rights and well-being, based on an exhaustive 150-country data-collection effort. This is an adapted and abridged edition of the Secretary-General's report 'We the Children: End-decade review of the follow-up to the World Summit for Children' (A/S-27/3), which was released in May 2001. Some of the data has been updated.
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What Parliamentarians can do about HIV/AIDS
This information kit, prepared by UNICEF and partners, calls on parliamentarians to use their influence and resources in halting the spread of HIV/AIDS. Decisive action by political leaders has proven to be a common, critical factor in changing the course of the pandemic. Leadership by elected officials - whose actions must include breaking the silence, educating their constituencies and lobbying for AIDS legislation and budgetary allocations - is key to controlling the disease.
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What Religious Leaders can do about HIV/AIDS
This information kit, jointly produced by UNICEF, UNAIDS and the World Conference of Religions for Peace, appeals to leaders of various faith communities to use their influence, moral leadership and resources to alter the course of the epidemic. This kit has been tested and reviewed by religious leaders in Africa and Asia, and by other representatives of faith-based organizations and networks.
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Young People and HIV/AIDS: Opportunity in Crisis
There is a way to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS: We must focus on young people. More than half of those newly infected with HIV today are between 15 and 24 years old. Yet the needs of the world’s 1 billion young people are routinely disregarded when strategies on HIV/AIDS are drafted, policies made and budgets allocated. This is especially tragic as young people are more likely than adults to adopt and maintain safe behaviours. This landmark report contains important new data about why young people are key to defeating the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, including results from more than 60 new national surveys. It reaffirms that we must accord top priority to making investments in the well-being of young people and to engaging them in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Produced by UNICEF, UNAIDS and WHO, the report is the first comprehensive look at the knowledge and behaviour of people aged 15 to 24 relating to HIV/AIDS.
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