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Protecting Childhood in the AIDS Pandemic - Finding Solutions that Work (Hardcover)
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Protecting Childhood in the AIDS Pandemic - Finding Solutions that Work (Hardcover)
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Every year over a quarter of a million children die of AIDS.
Another two million children currently live with HIV, most in
sub-Saharan Africa. Millions more are affected when AIDS enters
their families or their communities. Orphans are perhaps the most
visible: 15 million children have lost one or both parents to AIDS;
12 million of them live in sub-Saharan Africa. The increasing
burden of care due to HIV/AIDS falls mainly on extended family:
first they care for the sick and dying relatives, and then they
take responsibility for the children left behind. Today, the
extended family cares for over 90% of double orphans. Adults who
take on these immense caregiving burdens have less time for their
own children, fewer financial resources, and greater difficulties
securing food and shelter. Thus, children who have parents
providing care to sick relatives or who share scarce resources with
foster children may also experience disadvantage. In communities
severely affected by AIDS, traditional safety nets are often eroded
by cumulative mortality: teachers are absent from school because of
their own illness or that of family members, and basic health
facilities can be overwhelmed by AIDS care needs, all of which
leave children increasingly vulnerable. The impact is most severe
in environments where government- and state-level support is
weakest-where universal education, health care, and social welfare
are either partially available or not available at all. Protecting
Childhood in the AIDS Pandemic will bring together lessons from
experts around the world on what has worked, and what would need to
be done to transform the outcomes of children of all ages whose
lives have been affected by HIV/AIDS. Examining which public
policies and programs have worked best to meet the full range of
children's needs, from medical care to social support and from
infancy to adolescence, this is the volume for academics, social
scientists, policymakers, and on-the-ground practitioners.
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