Children of AIDS : Africa's orphan crisis / Emma Guest.

  • Guest, Emma, 1970-
Date:
[2003]
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Description

AIDS has ravaged Africa, South of the Sahara, the epidemic is catastrophic. Every day seventeen hundred South Africans contract HIV, and in Botswana over a third of adults are infected. With the death toll ever increasing, this book explores how governments, charities and families are responding to the next wave of the crisis--millions of orphaned children.

Publication/Creation

London : Pluto Press : University of Natal Press, [2003]

Physical description

xiii, 176 pages ; 22 cm

Related material

This item was donated as part of The Women's Health Library archive held by Wellcome Collection, reference SA/WHL https://wellcomecollection.org/works/fjg4s86y

Edition

2nd edition.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Section I: Families -- Mbuya's story: a grandmother's story, Lusaka, Zambia -- Extended families: an aunt's story, Kampala, Uganda -- Strangers step in: the tale of two foster parents, South Africa -- Section II: Projects -- Childcare by committee: a social worker's story, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa -- Hope in the hills: 'cluster fostering' in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa -- Institutionalised: an orphanage in Cape Town, South Africa -- A hundred dollars for a bull: a social worker's story, Luweero District, Uganda -- Section III: International involvement -- Foreign aid or interference?: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Lusaka, Zambia -- Section IV: Children alone -- A mother to her brothers: a child-headed household's story, Johannesburg, South Africa -- Falling through the net: a street child's story, Lusaka, Zambia.

Notes

Copy 1. Donor: This item was originally held in the Women's Health Library. It was donated to Wellcome in 2016 by the Feminist Library, which acted as temporary custodian following the closure of Women's Health in 2006.

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ISBN

  • 1573563463
  • 9781573563468
  • 086980992X
  • 9780869809921
  • 0745317693
  • 9780745317694
  • 0745320759
  • 9780745320755