KidzAlive, a unique chronic care model for children living with HIV, TB, and childhood trauma, celebrates childhood and acknowledges the cognitive, legal, and cultural challenges and limitations associated with childhood, and how they hinder children’s access to health services and ability to adhere to medication.
In 2007, the model was developed to address the huge gap in the provision of HIV case-finding in children.
Early focus group findings from the Zoë-Life team revealed three major challenges resulting in the limited involvement and participation of children in HIV service provision, namely caregiver fear and their lack of skills relating to disclosure, frontline healthcare workers’ lack of skills and confidence in providing child-focused psychosocial support to children, and lack of job aids to support a child-friendly, age-appropriate service to children.
Our approach involves training, mentoring, and coaching healthcare and community workers to provide integrated child-centred care to children, adolescents and their primary caregivers that address HIV/AIDS and other chronic conditions.
We provide a comprehensive psycho-social package, which includes age-appropriate language, colourful characters, and play therapy tools and techniques that address:
• Case-finding of Untested Children
• HIV Counselling and Testing
• Health-Promoting Disclosure (0-24 years)
• Child-Friendly Treatment Literacy
• Adherence (Individual and Support Groups)
KidzAlive Innovations
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Talk Tool App
KidzAlive Caregiver Connect
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Child-friendly Spaces
KidzAlive Projects
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KidzAlive@home
Funded by Aidsfonds
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KidzAlive Mobilised
Funded by Qualcomm® Wireless Reach™
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KidzAlive Mozambique
Funded by Aidsfonds
Find out more about KidzAlive and our courses
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This is a course that equips healthcare workers with skills and knowledge to confidently provide holistic services when working with children in HIV testing, disclosure and adherence.
Available in English and Portuguese
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KidzAdherence is a care and support programme designed to address both caregivers and their children. It provides HIV infected children, and their caregivers, with practical guidance on how best to manage their illness.
Available in English and Portuguese.
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This course equips healthcare workers with confidence, skills, knowledge and a framework to support caregivers through the barriers, and journey to disclosure in an age-appropriate, child/adolescent-focused method.