Children in the time of AIDS
This special edition of the AIDS Bulletin focuses on the psychosocial needs of children within the context of the AIDS pandemic and on memory work. Memory work is an innovative model of psychosocial support geared towards developing resilience among children, which has been adopted and adapted by various organisations working with children in the context of HIV/AIDS. This work has now been brought together by REPSSI under the umbrella of the Ten Million Memories Project.
The history and motivation for the initiation of the Ten Million Memories Project is elaborated in detail by both Stefan Germann and Jonathan Morgan. Some of the various ways in such memory work has been fast evolving, is described here by authors who have all been integrally involved in its development. Philippe Denis of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Jonathan Morgan of the University of Cape town, Juliet Carter of the South Coast Hospice and Carol Lindsay Smith - who brought memory work from the United Kingdom to Uganda, the first place in Africa where mothers began to use memory books as a tool for disclosing their HIV-positive status to their children. The empirical research that exists on the psychosocial needs of children seldom accesses the expertise of practitioners working in the field.
(AIDS Bulletin June/ July 2004)
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