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  • Title: AIDS leaving infants without mothers and homes.
    Journal: AIDS Wkly Plus; ; ():16. PubMed ID: 12295208.
    Abstract:
    By 2000, an estimated 200,000 Cambodians will be infected with HIV, the highest rate in Asia, and in the next 5 years, authorities in Cambodia believe that there will be 30,000-50,000 AIDS cases, overwhelming a health care system which has just 10,000 hospital beds nationwide. As more parents suffer the morbidity and mortality effects of HIV and AIDS, a growing number of infants born with HIV infection are being brought to charities, abandoned at pagodas, and left at the front gates of orphanages. Sometimes the fear of AIDS causes families to abandon these children, but most often the parents are simply too sick or too poor to care for them. Administrators at the government orphanage in Phnom Penh reported that 70% of children admitted in April 1999 were HIV positive and authorities there fear that their paltry resources may soon be overwhelmed.
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