The National Household HIV Prevalence and Risk Survey of South African Children - Softcover

This survey researches the little-known impact of HIV/AIDS on children. It investigates HIV prevalence rates among children, the risk factors that predispose them to becoming infected and the effects of the epidemic on their care and support. This study forms part of the larger Nelson Mandela/HSRC study of HIV/AIDS

Heather Brookes is a senior research specialist in the national research program on Child, Youth and Family Development with the Human Sciences Research Council. Olive Shisana is the executive director and founder of the Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health research program at the Human Sciences Research Council. She is former executive director of Family and Community Health at the World Health Organization (WHO), a founding member of the Partnership on AIDS in Africa, and she established the WHO HIV/AIDS/STI initiative. Linda Richter is the executive director of the Child, Youth and Family Development research program, and the chair of psychology and an elected fellow of the University of Natal. She holds an honorary professorship in the department of pediatrics and child health at Witwatersrand University and is a consultant in the HIV Prevention Trials Unit at the Medical Research Council-Durban.