The Children of Africa Confront AIDS: From Vulnerability to Possibility
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1. Verfasser: Singhal, Arvind (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Athens, OH Ohio University Press 2003
Schriftenreihe:Research in international studies
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Illustrations; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 AIDS, Orphans, and the Future of Democracy in Africa; 2 Civil Conflict, Sexual Violence, and HIV/AIDS; 3 The Vulnerability of Children and Orphaned Youth in Zimbabwe; 4 Reducing the Vulnerability of Africa's Children to HIV/AIDS; 5 Understanding the Psychological and Emotional Needs of AIDS Orphans in Africa; 6 Storytelling as a Psychological Intervention for AIDS Orphans in Africa; 7 HIV/AIDS, Children, and Sub-Saharan Africa; 8 For the Sake of the Children; 9 Participatory HIV Intervention with Ghanaian Youth
10 How Communities Help Families Cope with HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe11 Sara: A Role Model for African Girls Facing HIV/AIDS; 12 The Treatment of AIDS in Soul Buddyz; 13 "HIV Is Gold, AIDS Is Platinum"; 15 Communication Strategies for Confronting AIDS; Contributors; Index of Names; Index of Subjects
AIDS is now the leading cause of death in Africa, where twenty-eight million people are HIV-positive, and where some twelve million children have lost one or both parents to AIDS. In Zimbabwe, 45 percent of children under the age of five are HIV-positive, and the epidemic has shortened life expectancy by twenty-two years. A fifteen-year-old in Botswana or South Africa has a one-in-two chance of dying of AIDS. AIDS deaths are so widespread in sub-Saharan Africa that small children now play a new game called "Funerals." The Children of Africa Confront AIDS depicts the reality of how African ch
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