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Orphans and Vulnerable Children

The UCLA Program in Global Health is conducting policy and programmatic work to improve the lives of orphans and other vulnerable children (OVC) affected by HIV/AIDS.

OVC work in Malawi consists of the "Healthy Village" Initiative and the Tamandimwendo Project, both through our collaboration with Partners in Hope Medical Center; and the Chinteche Village Project, through our collaboration with Children in the Wilderness.

OVC work in South Africa focuses on KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa's most populous province, and is done in partnership with the University of KwaZulu-Natal and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), a branch of the South African government. The program includes testing an intervention, entitled "income and services support for highly vulnerable children and families in the context of HIV/AIDS and poverty". It attempts to answer fundamental questions that address how to scale-up sustainable support for children and families affected by HIV and AIDS.