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Children and AIDS is the online information portal and community of practice for the HIV and AIDS programme of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). 

It supports UNICEF and partners’ efforts to ensure that all infants, children, adolescents and their mothers can access life-saving HIV prevention, treatment, care and support, including in remote areas, in fragile states and among marginalized populations.

Programmes

Prevention of vertical transmission

It is critical that women living with HIV have ready access to services geared toward stopping the transmission of HIV to their children during pregnancy, delivery, and breastfeeding.

Treatment in children living with HIV

To ensure that every child thrives, it is imperative that we scale up access to Antiretroviral Therapy (ART). We must prioritize investments in healthcare infrastructure, improve early diagnosis, and scale up HIV case finding among children beyond infancy to ensure timely treatment for all affected. Every child deserves a chance at a healthy future, and our collective responsibility is to make that a reality.

HIV in adolescence

With increased investments and promising new prevention tools, HIV prevention is experiencing a renaissance. Yet, the rate of decline in new HIV infections among adolescents remains insufficient to meet global targets.

Between 2010 and 2020, there was a 34 per cent decline in new HIV infections among adolescents aged 10 – 19, a far cry from the target of a 75 per cent reduction for this period. 

HIV-sensitive social protection

Social protection covers a range of public and private economic and social policies and programmes that aim to reduce the consequences of poverty, vulnerability and exclusion across the life course. 

In recent years, cash transfer programmes have received increasing attention for their potential to exert significant positive impacts on HIV through influencing the social determinants of health. 

Recent documents

Curbing HIV transmission among adolescents in Africa

Social protection and multisectoral programming solutions

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Knocking on every door - Spotlight Tanzania

The family-centered approach to reaching every child living with HIV

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Spotlight on the Global HIVAIDS Thematic Fund

Results achieved in 2023 to achieve an AIDS-free future for children

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Evidence-based interventions for adolescent

Adolescents and young adults aged 10-24 remain underserved in the global response against HIV

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Latest webinars

ayKP partnership webinar series

Topics range from leadership to finance

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AIDS 2024 summary: webinar

Latest evidence for HIV and pregnant women, children, and adolescents

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2024 HIV estimates learning lab

The latest UNAIDS 2024 HIV estimates for children, adolescents, and pregnant women

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Systematic review of cash plus webinar

Bundled interventions targeting adolescents in Africa to reduce HIV and SRH risk

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