%0 Journal Article
%T The dangers of involving children as family caregivers of palliative home-based-care to advanced HIV/AIDS patients
%A Kang¡äethe S
%J Indian Journal of Palliative Care
%D 2010
%I Medknow Publications
%X The aim of this research paper is to explore the dangers of involving children as family caregivers of palliative care and home-based-care to advanced HIV/AIDS patients, while its objective is to discuss the dangers or perfidiousness that minors especially the girl children face as they handle care giving of advanced HIV/AIDS patients. The article has relied on eclectic data sources. The research has foundminors disadvantaged by the following: being engulfed by fear and denied rights through care giving; being emotionally and physiologically overwhelmed; being oppressed and suppressed by caring duties; being at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS; and having their education compromised by care giving. The paper recommends: (1) strengthening and emphasizing on children¡äs rights; (2) maintaining gender balance in care giving; (3) implementation and domestication of the United Nations conventions on the rights of children; (4) community awareness on equal gender co participation in care giving; (5) and fostering realization that relying on child care giving is a negative score in fulfilling global Millennium Development Goals.
%K Care giving
%K Community home based care program
%K HIV/AIDS
%K Palliative minor caregivers
%K Perfidy
%U http://www.jpalliativecare.com/article.asp?issn=0973-1075;year=2010;volume=16;issue=3;spage=117;epage=122;aulast=Kang