Children of AIDS: Africa's Orphan Crisis

Explores how governments, charities and families are responding to the crisis of millions of orphaned children. Because the AIDS epidemic has ravaged Africa, especially south of the Sahara, the death toll of infected adults is continually increasing.

This publication contains first-hand testimonies and gives insight into the reality of day to day life for the street orphans, care-takers, volunteers, doctors and family members living through the crisis across South Africa, Zambia and Uganda. The many ways families are coping with the strain of the epidemic are looked at including childcare projects, fostering schemes and orphanages; the benefits and difficulties of international involvement; and the prospects for children living on the streets or in child-headed families.