Peer-reviewed article
ICT-Enabled Learning Approaches For Improving Healthcare Delivery and Treatment Outcomes in Hiv-Affected Children
Sharon Samson ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001This paper examines how information and communication technology (ICT) teaching aids can support the education and healthcare of HIV-affected children in India. The authors review how HIV and AIDS impact educational outcomes through three main pathways: childhood illness, orphan-hood, and parental illness. The paper argues that ICT-based learning programmes could help address the distinct educational challenges faced by HIV-infected children, child orphans, and children with HIV-infected parents.
Key points
- HIV-infected children often miss school due to sickness and medical appointments
- Orphans affected by AIDS often face financial difficulties and lose interest in education
- Children with HIV-infected parents may need to provide care or face financial hardship affecting education
- Different groups of HIV-affected children experience distinct educational barriers requiring targeted policies
- ICT teaching aids could improve educational outcomes for vulnerable HIV-affected children
Limitations
The document is a literature review that does not present empirical data or evaluate a specific ICT intervention with measurable outcomes. It does not provide evidence of whether or how ICT programmes actually improve educational or health outcomes for HIV-affected children.
Abstract
In today's scenario teaching aids are the traditional and the modern method. Not only is learning now confined to schools, it has breached the barriers across borders. That was made possible by ICT (Information and Communication Technology) impact. The paper focuses on various teaching aids in ICT and studies the effect on its users of these teaching aids. The paper shows the influence of the ICT teaching aids used by its user and the ease of using it, centered on HIV children. Organizational effect addresses the importance of using ICT teaching aids to improve the workforce. 35 million people have suffered from HIV / AIDS over the past three decades. As a result, HIV / AIDS has led to a significant reduction in human capital, especially among children. Several studies have investigated the impact of HIV / AIDS on children, especially on educational achievement. These studies have analyzed different countries, databases, and educational outcomes, where the systematic review of literature offers a detailed up-to-date analysis of peerreviewed papers published in English by concentrating on the key mechanisms that influence the impact of HIV / AIDS on educational outcome. These are childhood illness, orphan-hood, and parental illness. The findings indicate that educational outcomes of children infected with HIV, orphans with AIDS and children with parents infected with HIV are affected differently. HIV-infected children usually skip school days due to sickness and medical appointments and orphans often face financial difficulties and lack interest in their education, while children with HIV-infected parents can have to take care of their sick parents or face financial problems affecting their education. Distinguishing these groups of children could help develop policies that improve the educational outcomes of these vulnerable children through the implementation of ICT programmers.