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Download full textPhillips, Charlotte – Online Submission, 2011
In the face of growing international support for recognition of child-headed households, the author poses the following questions: What does the internationally recognised right to alternative care for children entail? Is the recognition of child-headed households as a form of alternative care in line with the Convention on the Rights of the Child…
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Child Care, Heads of Households, Children
Direct linkJaffe, Gita – Education Canada, 2009
The 2005 "UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic" estimated that 10 million young people are living with HIV and AIDS worldwide and that approximately half of all new infections are among 15-24 year olds. Findings from a study suggest that there may be a false sense of complacency about the disease among today's youth. This ignorance…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), International Education, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedKendrick, Maureen; Kakuru, Doris – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2012
Much of the research on orphan and vulnerable children in sub-Saharan Africa has focused on their risks and vulnerabilities. This article describes the "funds of knowledge" (Moll and Greenberg, 1990) and means of acquiring new knowledge of children living in child-headed households in Uganda's Rakai District. Using ethnographic methods,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parents, Death, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
