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  • Title: Uganda. Assistance programme for AIDS orphans.
    Author: Sharpe U.
    Journal: Child Worldw; 1993; 20(2-3):47-51. PubMed ID: 12179313.
    Abstract:
    The Mobile Program was launched in 1987 and now responds to the needs of the AIDS-affected community through the Kitovu Hospital working in 15 Catholic parishes in Masaka Diocese in Rikai and Masaka districts. The program home care, orphan-oriented, and education components serve individuals who have been clinically diagnosed with AIDS, the worried well who wish to know their HIV status, orphans, AIDS-affected widows and guardians, and families affected by the AIDS epidemic. There is no family in the area which does not have orphans from relatives who have died from AIDS. Caring for these orphans often taxes already limited family resources. The Orphan's Program tries to help these families cope with the situation. The program for orphans has the following objectives: to provide school fees, uniforms, and scholastic materials to needy AIDS-affected orphans; to raise awareness among orphans regarding the spread of HIV and the need to adopt safer sex practices; to facilitate peer counseling among the orphans and to provide individual counseling to those in need; to stimulate the creativity of orphans through drama, song, and art, and to provide recreational facilities; to promote the spiritual growth of the orphans in their respective denominations; and to upgrade the teaching standard in schools with orphans. 2000 children of parents who used the home care service are on the immediate waiting list to receive services. Their dying parents were reassured in the program that their children would be cared for once orphaned. Nongovernmental organizations in the area care for orphans, but only less than one third of the children who need help. The paper discusses program drop-outs, the social and behavior change program, the problemmatic lack of personnel, the parish/community leader's AIDS course, guardians' seminars, and income-generating activities.
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