BACKGROUND The study investigated whether perceived social support varied among children who have lost their parents to AIDS, those who have lost their parents to other causes, those who are living with HIV/AIDS-infected caregivers and children from intact families (comparison group). METHOD This study employed cross-sectional, quantitative survey that involved 291 children aged 10-18 years i...

Although the exact impact of Covid‐19 pandemic on inclusion vulnerable children and young people—nationally internationally—is unknown, historical failures to address link between poverty low educational outcomes have reversed any progress hitherto achieved. This thematic issue speaks challenges faced by, promises made to, people in most circumstances: It brings together a set articles that det...

Introduction. Increasing concentrations of xenobiotics in the biosphere have induced growth microelementoses. The pathology is frequent among children as a result their adaptive insufficiency calling forth decrease nonspecific resistance. These tendencies make increasingly urgent need for development more efficient ways to correct environmentally determined conditions. Purpose: comparative study i...