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  PDF REPORT
 Children on the Brink 2004:A Joint Report of New Orphan Estimates and a
Framework for Action
UNAIDS, UNICEF, USAID  
July 2004
Policy Report
 
         Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
 
Prevalence and predictors of HIV-related stigma among institutional- and community-based
caregivers of orphans and vulnerable children living in five less wealthy countries.
Messer LC, Pence BW, Whetten K,  et al
BMC Public Health. 2010 Aug 19;10(1):504
 Abstracts

Orphans, AIDS, and the Millennium Development Goals: Models and capacity to act
Kojoué Kamga L.
Sante. 2009 Jul-Sep;19(3):134-9.
 Abstract

A Developmental Psychopathology Framework of the Psychosocial Needs of Children
Orphaned by HIV.
 Li X, Naar-King S, Barnett D, et al 
J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care. 2008 Mar-Apr;19(2):147-57.
 Abstract
 
Extended family caring for children orphaned by AIDS: balancing essential work and caregiving
in a high HIV prevalence nations.
Heymann J, Earle A, Rajaraman D, et al
AIDS Care. 2007 Mar;19(3):337-45.
 Abstract
 
Towards a Definition of Orphaned and Vulnerable Children.
Skinner D, Tsheko N, Mtero-Munyati S, et al 
AIDS Behav. 2006 Apr 26;
Abstract

Orphans of the AIDS epidemic: an examination of clinical level problems of children.
Pelton J, Forehand R.
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2005 Jun;44(6):585-91.
 Abstract
Adoption/Foster Care
       

Adoption and Healthcare

         Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Evaluating Acceptability and Completeness of Overseas Immunization Records of
Internationally Adopted Children.
Schulte JM, Maloney S, Aronson J, et al.
Pediatrics 2002 Feb;109(2):E22-E22
 Abstract

Adoption in Europe

    France

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Children of foreign origin adopted in France. Analysis of 68 cases during l2 years
at the University Hospital Center of Tours,  
Bureau JJ, Maurage C, Bremond M, et al.
Arch Pediatr 1999 Oct;6(10):1053-8
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