BACKGROUND The consequences of maternal mortality on orphaned children and the family members who support them are dramatic, especially in countries that have high maternal mortality like Ethiopia. As part of a four country, mixed-methods study (Ethiopia, Malawi, South Africa, and Tanzania) qualitative data were collected in Butajira, Ethiopia with the aim of exploring the far reaching conseque...

| January 2015 | 107 emphasizes on the necessity of an effective public health system and significance of community engagement in order to successfully contain any such outbreak in the future.[4,9,10] In fact, the international agencies have even realized the price we have to pay (in terms of disruption of social life, broken families, orphaned children, etc.), if we do not give adequate intere...

BACKGROUND HIV/AIDS has orphaned 11.6 million children in sub-Saharan Africa. Expanded antiretroviral therapy (ART) use may reduce AIDS orphanhood by decreasing adult mortality and population-level HIV transmission. METHODS We modeled two scenarios to measure the impact of adult ART use on the incidence of orphanhood in 10 sub-Saharan African countries, from 2009 to 2020. Demographic model da...

Older adults are increasingly playing the principal role in caring for younger adults sick with HIV/AIDS and for orphaned grandchildren. Recent research conducted in Thailand, Zimbabwe, and Uganda found that over two-thirds of elderly respondents were the main caregivers of ill adults or orphans whose parents had died of AIDS (Knodel et al. 2001; WHO 2001; Ntozi and Nakayiwa 1999). Often older ...

Orphaned adolescents at orphanages refer to the how lose one or both parents and live in orphanages. They are face many psychological challenges includes; anxiety, stress, self-esteem, self-efficacy depression.