Community interventions supporting children affected by HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: A review to derive evidence-based principles for programmingFootnote¹

1. Based on a presentation given on 12 March 2008 to the US government agencies meeting on “Orphans and Vulnerable Children: Developing Research Priorities” in Rockville, MD, USA. A subset of this material has been shared in Schenk (2009) and Schenk (Citation2008).

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