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This brief documents the work of the State Nutrition Missions in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, identifying lessons learned and policy recommendations moving forward. Results for Development partnered with Amaltas Consulting and UNICEF-India to deliver this brief. Background India is home to about a...

Background The HIV prevalence rate amongst pregnant women in Namibia has gone down from 18.2 per cent in 2012 to 16.9 per cent in 2014. A significant portion of the pregnant women are adolescent mothers. HIV testing and counselling (HTC) remains a key HIV intervention as an entry point to accessing...

This USAID report summarizes the toll that HIV/AIDS has taken on children globally: as many as 17 million children have lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS. Further, in 2016, 3.4 million children under the age of 15 were HIV+. Additionally, this report includes a series of images and an outline of...

This report takes a detailed look at how a parent’s unauthorized status affects child development. Based on a review of existing research that increasingly points to negative developmental consequences of parental unauthorized status across all stages of childhood, the authors explore possible...

This documentary film reveals the brutal reality of life on the streets and in the slums of Mumbai, following the daily struggles of four young children to survive. ...

In India, as in other countries, the rise in the number of street and working children is associated with the phenomenon of rapid urban growth, especially of sprawling slums and shanty towns. The predicament of the urban child "in difficult circumstances" is inextricable from these conditions of...

2001 ZIM: Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children and Adolescents in Zimbabwe UNICEF Zimbabwe conducted four studies and one literature review in collaboration with various local and governmental entities to develop a national strategy for Orphans and Vulnerable Children in the country. Children were...

Curriculum Development around Parenting Strategies to Prevent and Respond to Child Sexual Abuse in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Program Collaboration Between Families Matter! and Global Dialogues This study analyzes programmatic intervention methods, specifically those that relate to parenting, to better...