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  • Title: The real challenges: the orphan generation and employment creation.
    Author: Whiteside A.
    Journal: AIDS Anal Afr; 2000 Jan; 10(4):14-5. PubMed ID: 12349436.
    Abstract:
    A baby born to an HIV-positive mother has close to a 100% chance of being orphaned before reaching the age of 10. In South Africa, nearly 1 million children under the age of 15 are projected to lose their mothers by 2005 due to AIDS. These orphans are less likely to receive adequate parenting, education, and nutrition; others will seek to survive on the streets and thus will be more likely to face sexual abuse and exploitation. The long-term impact of HIV/AIDS on both the children and society will be severe. The orphans that AIDS is creating pose serious social, economic, political, and developmental challenges for South Africa. There are two options left for the government: 1) dramatically increasing welfare grants and staffing of welfare departments in order to care for the orphans; 2) find new imaginative measures of meeting the challenge. In addition, provision of employment for its population is another challenge the region is facing. Having the required resources and infrastructure, a potential intervention for South Africa would be training and employing a new cadre of workers to care for AIDS orphans. This type of response would also help build a civil society.
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