By an odd and unfortunate twist of fate, infants and children are becoming “therapeutic or pharmaceutical orphans.”1 Since 1962 they have been denied the use of many new drugs. The Drug Laws of 1962 had their inception following a pediatric tragedy—the thalidomide catastrophe. The laws of 1938 followed another which resulted from the use of a pediatric dosage form, “elixir” of sulfanilamide. By...

The extended family has been recognized as a major safety net for orphans in sub-Saharan Africa. But the mortality crisis associated with the HIV/AIDS epidemic may drastically reduce the number of relatives available to orphans and thus undermine traditional forms of mutual support. In this paper, a microsimulation, whose core relies on SOCSIM, is used to estimate and project quantities such as...

This study examines the state of housing support for orphans in Saudi Arabia—a group that suffers from poor financial capacity and social deprivation. It proposes a framework enhances participation all relevant authorities system, enabling to obtain needs, stability, economic empowerment within Vision 2030. A descriptive approach was used determine role partnership programs orphans. questionnai...

The phenomenon of "judicial orphans" is frequent in trial practice, which leads to difficult problems sentence enforcement. Therefore, it necessary improve the enforcement system, appropriately increase number non-custodial sentences, set up a relatively unified department and strengthen law supervision, build social support system for orphans". In order ensure organic unity legal effects crimi...

This paper examines how households are coping with the AIDS epidemic and is based on data from four studies of six districts in Uganda between 1992 and 1995. Patient care was found to be principally given by the parents and other relatives. A considerable proportion of spouses cared for the male AIDS patients. Orphans were mainly cared for by relatives, especially grandmothers. Upon the death o...

This article examines the legal verses of polygamy from a hermeneutical perspective. The third verse surah al-Nisa is often understood as commanding polygamy, because it contains recommendations to marry more than one woman, namely: two, three and four. data used in this are divided into two categories. collected were then analysed using hermeneutic theory Emelio Betti, Martin Heidegger, Hans G...