CHILDREN ORPHANED BY AIDS Front-line responses from eastern and southern Africa

CHILDREN ORPHANED BY AIDS Front-line responses from eastern and southern Africa

Growing Up in the Era of AIDS: The Well-Being of Children Affected and Infected by HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

Children may be affected by HIV/AIDS in numerous ways. When parents fall ill from HIVrelated infections, household income falls or is diverted to medical expenses, food insecurity increases and children may have to drop out of school to take on care responsibilities. When parents die, children are orphaned and, besides coping with grief at the loss of their mother or father, they face new care ...

Inverse association of natural mentoring relationship with distress mental health in children orphaned by AIDS

BACKGROUND The magnitude of the AIDS-orphaned children crisis in sub-Saharan Africa has so overstretched the resource of most families that the collapse of fostering in the sub-region seems imminent (UNICEF, 2003), fueling the need for a complementary/alternative care. This paper examines the probability of the natural mentoring care to ameliorate distress mental health in children orphaned by ...

Depression among AIDS-orphaned children higher than among other orphaned children in southern India

BACKGROUND Systematic data on mental health issues among orphaned children are not readily available in India. This study explored depression and its associated risk factors among orphaned children in Hyderabad city in south India. METHODS 400 orphaned children drawn equally from AIDS and non-AIDS orphan groups aged 12-16 years residing in orphanages in and around Hyderabad city in southern I...

Predictors of Mental Health Resilience in Children who Have Been Parentally Bereaved by AIDS in Urban South Africa.

Children parentally bereaved by AIDS experience high rates of mental health problems. However, there is considerable variability in outcomes, and some show no mental health problems even when followed over time. Primary aims were to identify predictors of resilient adaptation at child, family and community levels within a group of AIDS-orphaned children, and to consider their cumulative influen...