Family and Community Interventions for Children Affected by AIDS

This report focuses on interventions directed at supporting families and households and on building the capacities of communities. In the main the emphasis is on intervention principles rather than on actual programme implementation details because it is widely agreed that interventions need to be tailored for each particular situation. As Williamson says ‘Interventions to mitigate the impacts of HIV/AIDS must be tailored to the particular economic social cultural and environmental contexts of the countries and communities concerned. There is no one-size-fits-all approach. These intervention principles although not subjected to rigorous outcome evaluation are derived from reflection on practice and experience coming out of various forms of process evaluation. Interventions to support children families and communities run into each other with inevitable overlaps. Where this occurs the review ranges across children families and communities without artificial demarcation. (excerpt)