The Issue of the Care of Orphans and Children made Vulnerable by HIV/AIDS (OVC) in Ivory Coast: case of the Dabakala region

Tano Kouassi Joseph ,Sun Qiu Yun

doi:10.7176/rhss/9-2-15

Abstract

The epidemic of HIV/AIDS continues to increase the number of Orphans and Children made Vulnerable due to HIV/AIDS (OCV). One of the most serious problems facing the governments, the International organizations and the Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) in the organization of their response is the absence of data on quality of the services and the effectiveness of their interventions. An orphan is a child of less than 18 years who has lost one of his/her parents or both due to HIV/AIDS. In Ivory Coast, an Orphan of the HIV/AIDS is a completed Older child from 0 to 17 years which lost at least a relative because of the AIDS. It is also a child in situation of vulnerability due to HIV/aids is infected; whose at least relative lives with HIV/AIDS or which lives in an affected household economically by HIV/AIDS (where saw an infected adult.). The objective of this study aims a social-anthropological approach of the assumption of responsibility of the OCV. It aims making an inventory of all the public structures, nuns, NGO, or other speakers in the HIV and/or in favor of the children, likely to deal with of the OCV and identifying and at analyzing the offer of the services as regards assumption of responsibility and accompaniment of the OCV. Keywords: Assumption of responsibility, Orphans, Children vulnerable, HIV/AIDS DOI : 10.7176/RHSS/9-2-15

Highlights

In Ivory Coast the HIV/AIDS crisis started since September 19th, 2002 heavily burdened the development programs, of started health
Impoverishment, poverty, the food insecurity, the HIV/AIDS made only increase the precariousness of the life of the populations, that of the children
For more than 10 years, Ivory Coast is resolutely engaged in a total reduction policy of the HIV/AIDS pandemic

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Introduction

In Ivory Coast the HIV/AIDS crisis started since September 19th, 2002 heavily burdened the development programs, of started health. The living conditions of the populations were strongly degraded with the separate of the country into two, the recrudescence of unemployment, the destruction of the goods and public services and deprived, the abuses all kinds. Impoverishment, poverty, the food insecurity, the HIV/AIDS made only increase the precariousness of the life of the populations, that of the children. For more than 10 years, Ivory Coast is resolutely engaged in a total reduction policy of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The 2010 crisis somewhat hindered the momentum and accentuated the deterioration of the living conditions of an estimated population of about 23 million. Ivory Coast, remains the most affected countries in the West African sub-region by HIV/AIDS

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