Publications on Children

The UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Region Interfaith Consultation: Children and HIV & AIDS, held from 15-17 January 2008 in Bangkok, Thailand, was aimed at developing an interfaith regional framework to strengthen the role of Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs) in responding to HIV & AIDS and in addressing the needs of children affected by HIV and other vulnerable children.

This document is a guidance note on consideration of options for selection of technology for early diagnosis of HIV in infants in resource-limited settings.

This 2007 report is updated from an earlier version released in October 2006. Our aim is to provide the latest information of collaborative actions between UNICEF and governments, civil society, the United Nations system and international partners in East Asia and the Pacific region.

The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics has been conducting the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey since 1993 with the technical support of UNICEF. MICS 2006 was conducted during June through October 2006. The MICS 2006 is the ninth survey conducted in Bangladesh. This final report is based on the MICS 2006. A key findings report was published in June 2007.

This survey has been conducted as part of the third round of MICS surveys (MICS3), carried out around the world in more than 50 countries, in 2005-2006, following the first two rounds of MICS surveys that were conducted in 1995 and the year 2000.

Buttressing the linkage of a set of services, each with a constituency of users who may be exposed to HIV, is a systematic scale up of services with a vast scope for expansion. Such linkages utilize the strength of each channel — through sexually transmitted infections, reproductive health, adolescent, maternal, newborn and child health services — to bolster the health system’s overall response to one of 21st century’s most harrowing epidemics.

The major recommendation of this paper is to strongly increase resources available for age- and gender- appropriate HIV prevention and support services for young people engaging in high risk behaviors: injecting drug users, young women and men involved in sex work and young men who have sex with men.

These guidelines are based on the discussions held with health-care workers, researchers and programme managers from South-East Asia during a regional consultation organized by the World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia (WHO SEARO) and the United Nations Children's Fund Regional Office for South Asia (UNICEF ROSA) in New Delhi during 2006.

The estimates and data provided in the following tables relate to 2005 unless stated otherwise. These estimates have been produced and compiled by UNAIDS/WHO. 

The estimates and data provided in the following tables relate to 2005 unless stated otherwise. These estimates have been produced and compiled by UNAIDS/WHO.