Guideline on HIV Disclosure Counselling for Children Up to 12 Years of Age
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Guideline on HIV Disclosure Counselling for Children Up to 12 Years of Age
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Disclosure of HIV status is an important part of the process of living with HIV, and is crucial to continuum of HIV care. Disclosure decisions are particularly complex when children are involved because of concern about children's emotional and aptitudinal ability to understand and cope with the nature of the illness, stigma, family relations and concerns about social support. Parents and caregivers are often uncertain how to counsel about disclosure, and opportunities to provide HIV testing and care, and to help families start the discussion about living with HIV are often missed.
WHO has developed this guidance for healthcare workers on how to support children 12 years of age and younger, and their caregivers, on disclosure of HIV status. The guidance is intended as part of a comprehensive approach to the physical, emotional, cognitive and social well-being of a developing child following the child's own diagnosis of HIV or that of a parent of close caregiver.
Copyright © World Health Organization 2011.
Sections
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- SUMMARY DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST
- ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. METHOD
- 3. FINDINGS
- 4. CONCLUSION
- ENDNOTE REFERENCES
- APPENDIX A SEARCH STRATEGY
- APPENDIX B Do HIV positive children 12 years and under whose HIV status is disclosed to them display equal or greater well-being than those children who are not disclosed to?
- APPENDIX C Do HIV positive children 12 years and under whose HIV status is disclosed to them display equal or greater well-being pre- or post-disclosure?
- APPENDIX D CHILD REACTIONS TO DISCLOSURE
- APPENDIX E Do children 12 years and under who get the HIV positive status of their parent/caregiver disclosed to them display equal or greater well-being than those children who are not disclosed to?
- APPENDIX F Do children 12 years and under who get their parent/caregivers' HIV positive status disclosed to them display greater or equal well-being pre-to post-disclosure?
- APPENDIX G Child reaction to parent/caregiver disclosure
- APPENDIX H Do children whose parent/caregiver HIV status is publicly known display greater to equal well-being to community control compared to children whose parent/caregiver HIV status is confidential?
- APPENDIX I Example disclosure models/ approaches presented by Guideline Group members at the consultation meeting, June 2009
- APPENDIX J IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
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