Acknowledgements Introduction How HIV and AIDS affect young children Preventing HIV infection in young children Diagnosis, treatment and care Issues for health workers Selected resources Glossary Appendix 1 Appendix 2

Background material 
  

	AIDS and children: a lifetime of risk.  UNAIDS/PANOS, 1997.
	Strategies for hope series. TALC.  A series of booklets which provide practical strategies on AIDS prevention and care in developing countries through an exploration of specific case studies.   AIDS orphans: a community perspective from Tanzania. Mukoyogo, MC and Williams, G.  ActionAid, 1991. Living positively with AIDS: The AIDS Support Organisation (TASO), Uganda. Hampton, J. ActionAid, 1990.  The caring community: coping with AIDS in urban Uganda. Williams, G and Tamale, N.  ActionAid, 1991. Meeting AIDS with compassion: AIDS care and prevention in Agomanya, Ghana. Hampton, J.  ActionAid, 1991.
	Children's rights and HIV: a framework for action.  National Children's Bureau.
	Clinical tuberculosis, Crofton, J et al. Macmillan, London, 1992.
	Nutrition for developing countries.  Savage King, F and Burgess, A.  ELBS, London, 1993.

 

Newsletters 
  

	AIDS action.  Aimed at health workers and educators working at the primary level, it provides practical information on a wide range of care and prevention issues concerning AIDS, HIV and sexually transmitted infections. Published quarterly by Healthlink Worldwide. Free to developing countries.
	Child Health Dialogue.  Aimed at a broad range of health workers in developing countries, it is a forum for the exchange of information about the prevention and treatment of key childhood diseases, as well as providing practical advice on related health education. Published quarterly by AHRTAG. Free to developing countries.

 

Practical guidelines and training materials 
  

	AIDS home care handbook. GPA/WHO  (WHO/GPA/IDS/HCS/93.2), Geneva, 1993.
	Child-to-child: a resource book. Bonati, G and Hawes, H.  Child-to-Child Trust, London, 1992.
	Food for people living with HIV/AIDS. Network of African People Living with HIV / AIDS, Nairobi.
	Guidelines for the integrated management of childhood illness.  A series of workbooks forming the basis of a modular training course for health workers. WHO/UNICEF, 1996.
	HIV testing and informed consent-guidelines for health care workers.  HIV and human rights pamphlet 2, AIDS Law Project, Witwatersrand, January 1995.
	Practical guidelines for preventing infections transmitted by blood or air in health-care settings.  Discusses the risks to carers and patients of infections from hepatitis B, HIV and tuberculosis, and describes strategies to prevent infection. AHRTAG, 1996.
	Tuberculosis and children: the missing diagnosis. Explains how to diagnose and treat TB in children, and outlines control strategies. AHRTAG, 1996.

 

Organisations 
 

	Healthlink Worldwide (AHRTAG) Grayston Centre, 28 Charles Square, London N1 6HT UK Tel: +44 (0)207 250 6950 Fax: +44 (0)207 324 4740 E-mail: www.healthlink.org.uk
	AIDS Law Project  University of Witwatersrand, P Bag 3, Witwatersrand 2050, South Africa.
	Child-To-Child  Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL, UK.  Tel: +44 171 612 6650; Fax: +44 171 6126645
	Children and AIDS International NGO Network (CAINN)  International Coalition on AIDS and Development, 100 Argyle Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 1B4, Canada.  Tel: +1 6137885107; Fax: +1 613 788 5052

	Defence for Children International  PO Box 88, CH-1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland.
	European Forum on HIV/AIDS  Children and Families, London Lighthouse,  111-117 Lancaster Road, London W11 1QT, UK.  Tel: +44181 3835697; Fax: +44 181 383 5620
	Family AIDS Caring Trust  PO Box 970, Mutare, Zimbabwe.  Tel: +2633963902
	Family Health Trust  Anti-AIDS Project PO RW 754, Lusaka, Zambia. Tel: +260 1 223589; Fax: +260 1 222834
	International Catholic Child Bureau (ICCB)  63 Rue de Lausanne, CH-1202, Geneva, Switzerland. Tel: +41 22731 3248; Fax: +41 22 731 7793
	National Children's Bureau  8 Wakely Street London EC1 V 7QE, UK. Tel: +44 171 278 9441: Fax: +44 171 278 9512
	Network of African People Living with HIV/AIDS (NAP+)  PO Box 30218, Nairobi, Kenya.
	Panos Institute/Panos Publications  9 White Lion Street, London N1 9PD, UK.  Tel: +44 171 278 1111; Fax: +44 171 2780345
	Teaching-aids At Low Cost (TALC)  PO Box 49, St Albans, Herts AL1 5TX, UK.  Tel: +44 1727853869; Fax: +44 1727 846852
	United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)  3 UN Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA.  Tel: +1 2123267166; Fax: +1 2123267336
	UNAIDS  20 Avenue Appia, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland.  Tel: +41 22 791 3666; Fax: +41 22 791 4187
	WHO  20 Avenue Appia, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland.  Tel: +41 22 791 4652; Fax: +41 22 791 0317 56