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  • Title: All children in developing countries will be affected by AIDS, not just orphans.
    Author: Goldenberg DA.
    Journal: AIDS Anal Afr; 1996 Jun; 6(3):8-9. PubMed ID: 12291115.
    Abstract:
    The HIV/AIDS pandemic will transform the situation of children in the developing world through direct and indirect increases in child mortality, rising rates of adolescent HIV, widespread orphaning, and the deterioration of societal and community conditions due to adult mortality. Children aged 0-4 years comprise 10-18% of reported AIDS cases in southern African countries. By precipitating additional deaths, the effect of AIDS upon child mortality rates will be most marked in relatively low child mortality rate (CMR) countries such as Zimbabwe, Kenya, and South Africa, as well as in south Asia. Scant attention has been given to issues surrounding the burden of care for pediatric AIDS cases. Among the infants, children, and adolescents who do not succumb to HIV infection and AIDS, many will lose one or both parents due to AIDS. The World Health Organization (WHO) projects that by 1999, 5-10 million children aged 10 years and younger worldwide will have lost either their mothers or both parents to AIDS. Adolescents are being infected in increasing numbers, with the WHO estimating that 60% of new infections occur in the 15-24 year old age group. This article stresses the devastating effect that AIDS has not only upon AIDS orphans, but to all children and society at large.
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