Children caring for parents with HIV and AIDS : : Global issues and policy responses / / Ruth Evans, Saul Becker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• VerfasserIn: Evans, Ruth,; Becker, Saul,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)

This ground-breaking book focuses on the experiences and perspectives of children and young people who care for a parent with HIV in the global North and South. Drawing on in-depth qualitative research from the UK and Tanzania, the book presents a unique insight into the similarities and differences...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Contents
• List of tables, figures and boxes
• Preface
• Children’s and young people’s caring responsibilities within the family
• HIV and the family
• Reflexivity, methodology and ethics: the research process
• Living with HIV and the effects on family life: parents’ narratives
• Children’s and young people’s care work in households affected by HIV and AIDS
• Resilience and impacts of care work for individual young people and their families
• Resilience and impacts of young people’s care work within the school and wider community
• The role of formal safety nets in building children’s and families’ resilience
• Global and local processes influencing young people’s caring roles in families affected by HIV and AIDS
• Responding to the support needs of children and young people caring for parents with HIV
• Bibliography
• Index