Interfaith Consultation: Children and HIV & AIDS (Report)

The UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Region Interfaith Consultation: Children and HIV & AIDS, held from 15-17 January 2008 in Bangkok, Thailand, was aimed at developing an interfaith regional framework to strengthen the role of Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs) in responding to HIV & AIDS and in addressing the needs of children affected by HIV and other vulnerable children.

In addition to providing care and support to those infected and affected by HIV & AIDS, many delegates talked about what they saw as room for an even larger role in prevention. They saw scope for expanding activities in such areas as life skills education and outreach programmes targeting most-at-risk adolescents, especially with many of them already working with children’s classes and youth groups.