Turning The Tide: Addressing needs of children affected by TB, HIV and malaria

At the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) in Washington DC, the Regional Inter-Agency Task Force on Children and AIDS of eastern and southern Africa(RIATT-ESA) argued that children affected by AIDS also have rights to essential services but HIV often threatens their access to services. This is so because it impoverishes families and reduces the parents’ ability to care for their children as they would have wished otherwise.