Orphans in Kenya
“[W]ar, AIDS, and famine have brought to Africa an entirely new concept, children with no family members, no blood relatives, no extended family members. No elders to care for them, they are lost....”
HIV/aids
While new infections have fallen by a third in East and Southern Africa over the last six years, particularly among young women and girls, the millions of adults already infected continues to result in orphaned children.
References
- http://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/20170720_Data_book_2017_en.pdf
- https://www.avert.org/professionals/history-hiv-aids/overview
- http://www.missionariesofafrica.org/articles/sr/sr-spr2003.html