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The Bernard van Leer Foundation has recently published a new issue of its Early Childhood Development working paper series. This new working paper, Young children, HIV/AIDS and gender: A summary review, explores how to use the early years to lay the foundations for HIV/AIDS prevention.

This paper aims to kick-start a debate on an underexplored issue: ways in which attitudes towards gender that are inculcated in the early tears can play a significant role in creating behaviours in later life that influence the spread of HIV and AIDS.

The World Bank published a paper in its Youth Development Notes series earlier this year on how early childhood development can help to prevent risky behaviour during adolescence and young adulthood. This paper seeks to focus this issue specifically on gender socialisation in early childhood and HIV and AIDS prevention in adult life.

Further information

• Bernard van Leer Foundation: Where The Heart Is: Meeting the psychosocial needs of young children in the context of HIV/AIDS (August 2006)
• World Bank: Preventing Youth Risky Behaviour through Early Child Development (February 2006)
• Special CRINMAIL on the 2006 AIDS conference in Toronto
• CRIN's information page on HIV and AIDS

Previous Paper (general) items

• 01/11/2006: Review of Key Literature on Children, Youth and Small Arms
• 18/10/2006: UNICEF Position Paper on the Proposal by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on a Unified Treaty Body
• 04/10/2006: ENOC position paper on corporal punishment
• 03/10/2006: Save the Children’s key recommendations in response to the UN Study on Violence Against Children
• 02/10/2006: Violence Study: Recommendations for Action

Organisation Contact Details:

Bernard van Leer Foundation
PO Box 82334
2508 EH The Hague
Tel: 00 31 70 331 2200
Email: registry@bvleerf.nl
Website: www.bernardvanleer.org

Last updated 09/11/2006 05:32:28

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