Providing comprehensive care and support to children affected by HIV in Burkina Faso
31 January 2007
At the end of December 2006, Initiative Privée et Communautaire Contre le VIH/SIDA (IPC), the Alliance linking organisation in Burkina Faso, organised a national workshop to share experiences of providing comprehensive support to children affected by HIV, especially orphans and other vulnerable children.
IPC organised the workshop to share lessons from the programme it has been implementing since 2000, which focuses on improving the living conditions of orphans and vulnerable children, their families and the wider community. The programme is supported by the Abbott Step Forward fund, but the support will be ending in December 2007 and a scaled down transitional programme is being implemented in the final year.
Over 50 representatives from government, non-governmental and community-based organisations and donors attended the workshop to share experiences, to learn from the IPC/Step Forward programme and to share ideas on how to further improve care and support services for orphans and other vulnerable children in Burkina Faso. IPC shared its approach which focuses on children being part of families and wider communities which have a complexity of needs that need to be addressed in a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary manner.
IPC also used the workshop to share four newly developed tools that draw on the programme’s experience. (The links below link to draft versions of the publications. Final versions will be available soon).
- Enumération Participative des Orphelins et autres enfants Vulnérables: guide méthodologique (draft) (a toolkit on the participatory identification of orphans and other vulnerable children)
- Formulation d’une Politique Nationale et élaboration d’un Programme National de prise en charge des Orphelins et autre enfants Vulnérables au Burkina Faso (draft) (a document describing the process of developing a national policy and programme for the care and support of orphans and vulnerable children)
- Lutte contre le Sida, Mutuelle de Santé et Activités Génératrices de Revenus : approche intégrée pour reduire l’impact du SIDA sur les individus et les ménages pauvres et affectés (draft) (a document describing the innovative integrated approach model consisting of HIV/AIDS programmes with micro-health insurance and income generating activities to support orphans and vulnerable children and their families)
- Interventions Communautaires au profit des Orphelins et autres enfants vulnérables : kit de prise en charge communautaire et le soutien des OEV (draft) (toolkit on the minimum package of care and support services for OVC in the context of Burkina Faso).
