Our Priorities

Every child has the right to survival, development and participation. Protecting children and young people from contracting HIV, and providing essential social services to children affected by HIV and AIDS, is necessary for the exercise of these children's rights.

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Prevention of transmission, as well as provision of community-based care for children affected by HIV and AIDS, has improved since HIV first appeared in China. UNICEF works with the Chinese government to make sure that these advances continue.

Our HIV and AIDS programme helps children across China, including in remote rural areas, in ethnic minority communities and in the aftermath of earthquakes. We work on a wide range of projects, including:

• piloting a Child Welfare Framework that involves social workers in the coordination, monitoring and delivery of social services to vulnerable children,
• reducing the stigma and discrimination directed at children affected by HIV and AIDS by collaborating on awareness-raising media,
• delivering services including counseling and social support that assist with prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, and
• empowering young people to serve as Youth Ambassadors who provide peer education and promote youth participation in HIV prevention.

You can help children affected by HIV and AIDS. Take action by including children affected by HIV and AIDS in your community events, and treating such children in a non-discriminatory manner. Or find out how you can support UNICEF today.