AIDS in children
When the mother is infected, her child can acquire HIV in the maternal womb, in the act of being born or when being nursed.
Objective
  • Improve the quality of life for the children
  • Appease their tensions
  • Help them to relax
  • Help them sleep better
  • Improve their mood
  • Help them concentrate with their studies
  • Through massage therapy on their hands, feet and head; help them grow with confidence and self-esteem
the children

the children

Are HIV positive children from very deprived backgrounds. 16 of them, aged between 1 and 14 years old, who parents who were advanced AIDS sufferers and incapable of looking after them. There are 40+ others and live outside the Santa Clara Shelter.

Their background plus their medical condition had turned them into pariahs and outcasts reduced to living on the streets, in rubbish dumps and under bridges.

THEIR EMOTIONAL AND PHISIOLOGICAL STATE AT ARRIVED

  • High levels of aggressiveness, low self-esteem, irritability, intolerance, anxiety and sleep disturbances.
  • Anger and aggressiveness.
  • Sadness.
  • Lung infections and pneumonia.
  • Loss of appetite.
  • Warts and fungal infections.
  • Herpes Simplex.
  • Swollen glands.
  • muscular problems, bad posture, malunutricion.