Circle of Hope: a rights-based approach
For HIV and AIDS work to be most effective, local children and adults need to take part in devising and implementing solutions. Plan's approach facilitates meaningful participation, to help ensure solutions are locally appropriate and sustainable.
Circle of Hope Principles:
Be accountable to children when providing services to them.
Each context is different. Local people, including children, need to lead the way: they are the experts of the local context.
Education is not enough on its own. Young people's actions may be severely constrained by tradition, culture, social pressure and poverty: lack of knowledge is rarely the main reason for children’s vulnerability to HIV infection.
Listening to young people and empowering them is key to reducing youth vulnerability. With the opportunities and the tools to develop their own leadership, young people will influence their peers, and define and formulate their own knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours.
The distinction between prevention and care is academic to those affected.
 Plan's Global AIDS Framework [PDF, file size=1Mb]
Summary of Plan's current AIDS program, outlining specific contributions that Plan can make to the international response to AIDS
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Circle of Hope: a rights-based approach to tackling HIV and AIDS
(PDF, 4.4mb) Protecting children's rights in a world with HIV and AIDS
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