Antiretroviral roll-out in South Africa: where do children feature?

Gaps in children's issues in South Africa's national plan for care and treatment for HIV and AIDS

By: Shung-King M & Zampoli M
Published by: Save the Children Sweden / Children's Institute, University of Cape Town (UCT) , 2004
Via: Eldis

This paper explores whether children’s health needs are adequately addressed in South Africa's national plan for comprehensive care and treatment for HIV and AIDS. Whilst the commission specifically focuses on ART for children, the paper takes a more comprehensive view of the health needs of children with HIV-infection. The authors note that the current comprehensive Plan is commendable in that it does highlight children’s issues and does give children’s needs some attention. However, they argue that this is not done in a comprehensive child-orientated way where children’s comprehensive health needs are considered, and they identify a number of gaps in the Plan.