This year the UK's theme is "You, Me, Us", encouraging people toacknowledge that HIV and Aids are everybody's responsibility.
To mark World Aids Day, the Children and Young People HIV Network, basedat NCB, has produced a report on a particularly vulnerable group ofchildren in this country - those living with HIV who have insecureimmigration status. This includes children in families that may beseeking asylum or awaiting an appeal, as well as visa overstayers orthose who are undocumented.
Children, HIV, Asylum and Immigration draws on data gathered thoughinterviews, questionnaires and case studies, and identifies severalareas of concern.
These include the fact that chronically ill children may be living inpoverty with poor housing and facilities; they may even be in detentioncentres. Access to free NHS treatment may be a problem - not only forHIV infected children, but also for pregnant women, in order to preventmother-to-baby transmission.
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