Crisis Foster Care In An Age Of Hiv And Aids
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Crisis Foster Care In An Age Of Hiv And Aids
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Author : Bright Bensah Drah
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Crisis Foster Care In An Age Of Hiv And Aids written by Bright Bensah Drah and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
Older women in communities ravaged by HIV and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa have been hailed as constituting the most effective response to the growing number of orphans, which has overwhelmed the customary mechanisms of support. Over 80 percent of orphans in Ghana are fostered by women, because an orphan's kinship networks - and particularly the female members of the networks - are expected to assume responsibility for her/him. Unfortunately, in the Manya Klo Traditional Area of Ghana, AIDS, poverty and other factors have weakened kinship support and cooperation, resulting in patchy external responses to physically frail and economically disempowered traditional female leaders (queen mothers) acting as caregivers. Most of the existing research about orphan care has focused exclusively on the woman-child dyad, thereby obscuring other forms of care. In particular, the "grandmother-led household" has become a self-fulfilling truism that has blinded researchers to other relationships of care. Moreover, the analyses of the situation of orphans are based on frameworks that ignore orphans' perspectives and the social context in which fostering is negotiated. In this study, I employ mixed methods to analyze an orphan care project run by the Manya Krobo Queen Mothers Association (MKQMA) and address three issues: (1) What is the socio-economic and cultural context in which queen mothers foster orphans? In particular, how do queen mothers' positions as traditional leaders, HIV and AIDS, poverty, and external assistance programs (state and NGO) all shape the organization of orphan care? (2) What are the challenges for depending on the Queen Mothers Association to support orphans? (3) How are orphans' needs identified and described (from the perspectives of the caregiver, the orphans and those who assist them). In particular, can community-derived measures of childcare rather than the current measures typically used in international development and children's projects provide better indices of the needs of children after losing a parent?
Courage To Care
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Author : Gary R. Anderson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Courage To Care written by Gary R. Anderson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Medical categories.
Crying For Our Elders
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Author : Kristen E. Cheney
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2017-03-05
Crying For Our Elders written by Kristen E. Cheney and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-05 with Social Science categories.
The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa has defined the childhoods of an entire generation. Over the past twenty years, international NGOs and charities have devoted immense attention to the millions of African children orphaned by the disease. But in Crying for Our Elders, anthropologist Kristen E. Cheney argues that these humanitarian groups have misread the ‘orphan crisis’. She explains how the global humanitarian focus on orphanhood often elides the social and political circumstances that actually present the greatest adversity to vulnerable children—in effect deepening the crisis and thereby affecting children’s lives as irrevocably as HIV/AIDS itself. Through ethnographic fieldwork and collaborative research with children in Uganda, Cheney traces how the “best interest” principle that governs children’s’ rights can stigmatize orphans and leave children in the post-antiretroviral era even more vulnerable to exploitation. She details the dramatic effects this has on traditional family support and child protection and stresses child empowerment over pity. Crying for Our Elders advances current discussions on humanitarianism, children’s studies, orphanhood, and kinship. By exploring the unique experience of AIDS orphanhood through the eyes of children, caregivers, and policymakers, Cheney shows that despite the extreme challenges of growing up in the era of HIV/AIDS, the post-ARV generation still holds out hope for the future.
Aids And The New Orphans
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Author : Barbara O. Dane
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 1994-10-21
Aids And The New Orphans written by Barbara O. Dane and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-10-21 with Health & Fitness categories.
By the year 2000, as many as 125,000 children under the age of 18 in the U.S. will have been orphaned by AIDS. Social services in major urban centers such as New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and Washington will be further overwhelmed by these new clients and their unique problems. In this book, experts on AIDS, bereavement, and children draw together and analyze research and practice models that may be vital to individual and public policy solutions. The first chapter sets the stage by examining how Western culture approaches death. Issues of spirituality and children are discussed next, and the following chapters deal with childhood bereavement among latency-age children and adolescents. The role of culture and ethnicity are examined in the Latino and Black communities. Also, the conflicts and problems that new guardians face as they attempt to build new and secure relationships with grieving youngsters are addressed. The book ends with an examination of four projects that are reaching children and families and gives recommendations to practitioners. This book is an invaluable examination of a problem of growing social concern for social, medical, and mental health professionals, public policy analysts, and the general public.
Aids And Hiv
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989-01-01
Aids And Hiv written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-01-01 with AIDS (Disease) in children categories.
Meeting The Challenge Of Hiv Infection In Family Foster Care
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Author : Constance M. Ryan
language : en
Publisher: CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America)
Release Date : 1991
Meeting The Challenge Of Hiv Infection In Family Foster Care written by Constance M. Ryan and has been published by CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Health & Fitness categories.
Courage To Care
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Author : Child Welfare League of America
language : en
Publisher: Child Welfare League of Amer
Release Date : 1990
Courage To Care written by Child Welfare League of America and has been published by Child Welfare League of Amer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Social Science categories.
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Hiv Affected And Vulnerable Youth
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Author : Alejandro Garcia
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-01-21
Hiv Affected And Vulnerable Youth written by Alejandro Garcia and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-21 with Health & Fitness categories.
HIV Affected and Vulnerable Youth: Prevention Issues and Approaches provides suggestions for support of vulnerable youth who must face chronic disease or death, poverty, drug abuse, and racism, as well as the tribulations that accompany adolescence. Social workers, case managers, psychologists, and nurses who work with HIV-affected and vulnerable youth and their families will find unique recommendations on how to assist these individuals in resisting risky behaviors. This unique collection of research studies expands on the current knowledge while informing us of how much more there is to be learned. This informative book will enlighten you about the children and mothers who are most likely to be affected by the HIV disease, the poor people of color living in substandard housing who are subjected to discrimination and social isolation. The multiple losses experienced by these women and children because of infection, crime, and substance abuse are included in this valuable book but most importantly you will discover how you can alleviate some of the stresses caused by these losses. Through HIV Affected and Vulnerable Youth, you will discover multiple ways to successfully help the adolescents in your practice deal with the challenges inherent to HIV, economic hardships, and substance abuse. Comprehensive and intelligent, this important book will help you address the needs of HIV-affected children or families with humanity, sensitivity, and ethnically sensitive interventions. With HIV Affected and Vulnerable Youth, you will find unique interventions to help the youth and family in your community by: discovering how facing the mortality of an HIV-infected family member has profound psychological effects on a child or adolescent and how you can help ease this crisis for your clients understanding why many youth who must cope with the eminent death of a family member deal with this crisis by engaging in risky behaviors which may result in HIV infection for themselves realizing that the lack of education about HIV, how it is transmitted, and how to prevent transmission may be part of the problem for high-risk youth learning how some HIV-positive children exhibit stable functioning and resilience in coping with their health, but have difficulties exhibiting the same stability in other aspects of their lives realizing that the social stigma surrounding HIV has not lost its intensity and that this stigma is a part of the everyday reality for HIV-affected children and their families HIV Affected and Vulnerable Youth: Prevention Issues and Approaches brings to light the daily heartache and struggles of HIV-affected children and their families. The day-to-day challenges of families and youths due to HIV-infection, crime, substance abuse, and sometimes where and how they live pose problems to the well-being of these individuals and are significant obstacles to mental-health therapy and health care services. This helpful book offers you several intervention techniques in order to improve the lives of HIV-affected individuals and families in your community.
Social Medical And Legal Implications Of Hiv Testing In Foster Children
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Author : Donna Jean Lohmann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Social Medical And Legal Implications Of Hiv Testing In Foster Children written by Donna Jean Lohmann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with categories.
The Foster Care Crisis
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Author : Patrick Almond Curtis
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1999-01-01
The Foster Care Crisis written by Patrick Almond Curtis and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with Social Science categories.
The inadequacy of the foster care system has long been recognized. One of the biggest obstacles to reforming the system is the relative unavailability of research data from the field, information that would shed light on key empirical trends and pressing issues. ø This long overdue volume provides a much-needed overview of the current state of foster care. Leading researchers and practitioners summarize and discuss the results of their current research, providing through their data an unparalleled, detailed glimpse of the inner workings of the foster care system in its entirety. The volume is also valuable for its survey and syntheses of important issues and trends affecting foster care. Subjects discussed include welfare reform, reporting systems, family reunification, mental health services, and the needs of minority children. Wide-ranging and detailed in its coverage, this collection is destined to become an essential reference and guide to the foster care system.