Models of care for orphaned and separated children and upholding children's rights: cross-sectional evidence from western Kenya
Models of care for orphaned and separated children and upholding children's rights: cross-sectional evidence from western Kenya
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DOI：
10.1186/1472-698x-14-9
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发表时间：
2014-04-01
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3
通讯作者：
Braitstein, Paula
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作者：
Embleton, Lonnie;Ayuku, David;Braitstein, Paula
背景：撒哈拉以南非洲大约有5500万孤儿。日益严重的孤儿危机使许多社区不堪重负，并削弱了大家庭满足传统照料期望的能力。在撒哈拉以南非洲地区，为了解决日益严重的孤儿危机，出现了其他的关怀和支持模式，但文献中缺乏关于这些模式的信息。我们运用联合国儿童权利公约的人权框架来了解在肯尼亚瓦辛吉舒县的机构与社区或家庭护理环境中，儿童的基本人权得到了多大程度的维护。方法：“失散儿童健康与幸福评价”项目是一项为期5年的老年失散儿童和青少年队列研究
Background: Sub-Saharan Africa is home to approximately 55 million orphaned children. The growing orphan crisis has overwhelmed many communities and has weakened the ability of extended families to meet traditional care-taking expectations. Other models of care and support have emerged in sub-Saharan Africa to address the growing orphan crisis, yet there is a lack of information on these models available in the literature. We applied a human rights framework using the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child to understand what extent children's basic human rights were being upheld in institutional vs. community-or family-based care settings in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya.Methods: The Orphaned and Separated Children's Assessments Related to their Health and Well-Being Project is a 5-year cohort of orphaned children and adolescents aged