The Theory of Change focuses on the significant number of children with HIV who are underserved: children who may have never been diagnosed, or who have been lost to follow-up and no longer receive HIV treatment. Aidsfonds’ role is to advocate for more funding for paediatric HIV; to fund community-based organisations for service delivery and advocacy; and to invest in paediatric HIV linking and learning.
Are you working in paediatric HIV programming? The Kids to Care Toolkit might be of great support to you. This toolkit has been developed to provide support for those who want to implement a community-based model to strengthen paediatric HIV care that is based on evidence and best practice.
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Results and impact from the Kusingata project in Mozambique. Kusingata implements community-led monitoring by using the community score card tool to encourage people living with HIV to engage with health service providers and health authorities to assess the quality of the services, and to jointly create action plans to respond to the identified service gaps.
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Results and impact from the Lafiyan Yara project in Nigeria. The Lafiyan Yara (“wellbeing of children”) project is a community-based response to paediatric HIV run by the Society for Family Health Nigeria. It adapts and builds on integrated community case management models used to espond to malaria and other health issues, to respond to paediatric HIV. The project harnesses three cadres of community mobiliser who prevent new infections through eliminating vertical transmission and identify children living with HIV as early as possible so they can be linked to care and supported to live healthy lives. Lafiyan Yara was implemented between 2019-2022 in eight local government authorities in Taraba state with support from Aidsfonds.
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Results and best practices from the Towards an AIDS free Generation in Uganda (TAFU) programme. This programme was Aidsfonds’ first paediatric HIV community intervention programme. It trained up community health workers to identify HIV positive children, and link individuals to care and ongoing support. The programme was co-created through community leadership and engagement with key stakeholders, building on community knowledge of the needs of children living with HIV. Towards an AIDS Free Generation in Uganda changed the way that community-based paediatric HIV services were delivered.
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Results and best practices from the Find, Test, Treat project in Zimbabwe
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Results and best practices from the KidzAlive@Home programme in South Africa
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