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  • Title: The lost generation.
    Author: Armstrong S.
    Journal: WorldAIDS; 1993 Mar; (26):5-8. PubMed ID: 12286736.
    Abstract:
    The WHO estimates that during the 1990s between 10 and 15 million children around the world will lose a mother, father, or both parents to AIDS. The chance of a woman with HIV/AIDS passing the virus on to her child is about 30%. 25% of infected children born to HIV-infected mothers die before their 1st birthday, and 20% survive past the age of 5. Of the 10-15 million orphans expected by the turn of the century, 90% will be in sub-Saharan Africa. It is only a matter of time before parts of Asia and Latin America, where HIV is spreading at an explosive rate, face the same social problems as Africa. Thailand expects to have some 2 million motherless children by the year 2010. In Uganda's Rakai district, a 1989 survey found there were 25,000 orphans under the age of 15 (12% of the population), mainly because of AIDS. In 1991, Kagera, Tanzania's worst affected region, was thought to have about 30,000 orphans in a population of 1.4 million. A World Vision survey in Rakai, Uganda, found 4% of households headed by children between the ages of 12 and 16 years. In Tanzania, the self-help organization WAMATA works in villages bordering Lake Victoria, and, in Zambia, a home-based care team operates out of the Salvation Army Hospital at Chikankata. Malawi, which expects to have 120,000 AIDS orphans by 1995, is also promoting the idea of foster care by volunteer families along the lines of a pilot project run by the Muslim Association for 250 children. World Vision has a program that reaches some 50,000 orphans and their foster families in the Rakai, Masaka, and Gulu districts of Uganda. The program helps foster families with agriculture and credit as well as paying for orphans' school feed, uniforms, and equipment.
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