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  • Title: AIDS. Orphans of the storm.
    Author: Kelso BJ.
    Journal: Afr Rep; 1994; 39(1):50-5. PubMed ID: 12288998.
    Abstract:
    African children orphaned as a result of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) represent the most recent challenge to governments already overwhelmed by the costs of the AIDS epidemic. There are an estimated 67,770 AIDS orphans in Zimbabwe, 24,000 in Malawi, and 80,000 in Zambia. Orphanages, intended for troubled adolescents, are full and the burden of care for children who have lost a parent to AIDS has fallen on the extended family. Rather than build more orphanages, state officials and nongovernmental organizations are working to strengthen the capacity of extended families and communities to care for these children. For example, Zimbabwe's Family AIDS Caring Trust is assisting families with food, clothes, and school fees and providing community education on AIDS. A key aim of the program is to revitalize communities' traditional coping systems, ruptured as a result of modernization. In Malawi, the National Task Force on Orphans provides agricultural supplies and skills training to empower extended families. Zambia's Children in Distress program sets up committees of neighbors, friends, and teachers of orphans to serve as co-foster parents with relatives. Despite these initiatives, child abandonment, child-headed households, and involvement of orphans in prostitution are widespread phenomena.
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