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 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 children deal with the AIDS epidemic, and how the discour…
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Weitere Autoren: Howard, Steve (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-89680-445-6
- EAN: 9780896804456
- Produktnummer: 20435572
- Verlag: Ohio University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 296 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'007 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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