The Children of Africa Confront AIDS :: From Vulnerability to Possibility.

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 expectan...

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1. Verfasser: Singhal, Arvind, 1962-
Weitere Verfasser: Howard, W. Stephen
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2003.
Schriftenreihe:Research in international studies. Africa series.
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:1 online resource (284 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780896804456
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