AIDS, Public Policy and Child Well-being

This book reviews the community and public policy interventions introduced so far to moderate the impact of the disease on children and families, and discusses the advantages and limitations of such interventions. The main constraint to the measures introduced so far is their nearly exclusive focus on prevention and the health sector. While this approach is understandable in the early phase of the epidemics, its ability to protect child well-being now appears limited. Indeed, even the countries that successfully reduced adult prevalence are now confronted with a rise in the number of paediatric AIDS cases and AIDS deaths among parents and orphans.