Models of care for orphaned and separated children and upholding children's rights: cross-sectional evidence from western Kenya.

ABSTRACT:

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-Bei

SUBMITTER: Embleton L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4021203 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature