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Original Post Date: 2003-11-27 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 11/27/2003 10:43:00 AM
Africa: 11 millions AIDS orphans & the worst is yet to come
Johannesburg – Aids has already orphaned more than 11 million African children under the age of 15, and “the worst is yet to come,” warned a report issued Wednesday by the UN Children’s Fund.
By 2010, there will be about 20 million children in sub-Saharan Africa who have lost at least one parent to Aids, bringing the total number of orphans in the region to 42 million.
In the worst affected countries – Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe – more than one in five children will be orphans by 2010 – more than 80% of them because of Aids, according to the report “Africa’s Orphaned Generations”.
Even in countries like Uganda, where HIV prevalence has stabilised or fallen, the number of orphans will remain high because of the proportion of adults already infected with HIV – few of whom have access to life-prolonging anti-retroviral drugs.
These children – half of them between the ages of 10 and 14 – are left without critical guidance, protection and support, the report warned. They are also at risk of malnutrition, physical and sexual abuse, and exposure to HIV infection.
“We need to move beyond feeling beleaguered to feeling outraged by the unacceptable suffering of children,” Unicef executive director Carol Bellamy said in a statement on Wednesday.
Extended families are caring for 90% of African orphans, the report said.
In many countries, a growing number of these households are headed by women and grandparents. Already generally poorer, they are less and less able to provide adequately for the children in their care – and their burden is only set to increase.
To make matters worse, many of the most severely affected countries have no policies to address the needs of orphans, the report found.
The failure to respond to the orphan crisis jeopardises not only the children’s future, but also the development prospects of their communities and countries, it said.
A childhood and adolescence without parental protection and guidance will leave millions of orphans ill-prepared to assume responsible, productive roles as adults, Unicef said.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa is home to nearly three-quarters of the world’s HIV-infected population. Eight out of every 10 children who have lost parents to Aids live in this region.
If not for HIV, the number of orphans here would be decreasing, Unicef said. Instead, it is spiraling higher.
Children in HIV affected households begin to suffer even before a parent dies.
Household incomes plummet when adults fall ill from HIV because they can no longer work full time, if at all. The amount of land they cultivate drops, and with it food supplies, even as health care expenses soar.
With death comes funeral expenses, and in some cases, land dispossession.
Many children are forced to drop out of school because they can’t afford the fees, have to care for a sick parent, or need to earn money.
They also face the stigma of being associated with someone who has HIV
Source: NEWS24.COM
URL: http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/Aid…br>