This paper reports an exploratory qualitative project in the Entebbe-Kampala area of Uganda with 11 grandmothers who are raising orphans because of a parent's death from HIV infection. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the highest HIV infection and mortality rates are among women, especially in their childbearing years, leading to a tremendous number of orphaned HIV-infected and -affected children. Uganda...

Accumulating evidence suggests that AIDS orphanhood status is accompanied by increased levels of psychological distress such as anxiety, depression, intense guilt, shame, and anger. However, few studies have examined the possible reduction of psychological distress in AIDS orphans through the help of interventions that promote well-being. The objective of the study was to evaluate the effects o...

Nuclear receptors typically bind to DNA as homodimers or heterodimers, but increasing numbers of orphan receptors have been identified that bind DNA as monomers.

There are several factors to be considered when facing the problem of therapeutic orphans. First, there is the scientific one. We are all convinced that there is much need for more data concerning the use of drugs in children, infants, and neonates. Second, there is a regulatory factor involving political and technical institutions. Finally, we have to consider the economic interest of the phar...

The article focuses on the importance of educational mentoring for older adolescent orphans that involves community-minded non-profit organizations. authors have sufficiently substantiated and developed a technology school leaving age to be applied in centres helping childreninvolving representatives organizations order form orphans’ skills competencies necessary living their own, increase leve...

Part II of The Impact of AIDS provides summaries of selected studies referred to in earlier chapters. For each study, the summary gives a brief overview of the objectives and results of the research. Much of the usefulness of the results depends on how a study was carried out. The summaries give information about the methodology , the size of the sample and whether it was representative, whethe...

The objective of this study was to assess the gender differences of maladaptive cognitive schema among orphans in Dakahlia governorate orphanages. A cross-sectional comparative study included 152 orphan boys and 48 orphan girls in all orphanages homes in Dakahlia governorate, Egypt. Data collection tools included a structured interview questionnaire for personal data; early maladaptive schema q...