In this paper, we examine how orphanhood affects children’s educational and health outcomes in eleven sub-Saharan African countries. Our analysis is based on a comparison of orphans and non-orphaned children living under the same conditions. We also examine the impacts of various family structures and compare social orphans (non-orphaned children not living with a biological parent) to orphans....

www.thelancet.com Vol 375 January 30, 2010 363 13-year-old Seema lives with her grandmother Susheela and three other orphaned cousins, in a dark, poorly ventilated two-room tenement in a slum in Bangalore, the capital city of Karnataka state, southern India. She has lost her parents to AIDS, is HIVpositive, visibly malnourished, and has cataracts in both eyes. Seema is not yet on antiretroviral...

PURPOSE By 2010, an estimated 18.4 million children in Sub-Saharan Africa will be orphaned by AIDS. Research in South Africa shows that AIDS orphanhood is independently associated with heightened levels of psychological problems. This study is the first to explore the mediating effects of stigma and other factors operating on a community level, on associations between AIDS orphanhood and mental...

BACKGROUND Maternal mortality, although largely preventable, remains unacceptably high in developing countries such as Malawi and creates a number of intergenerational impacts. Few studies have investigated the far-reaching impacts of maternal death beyond infant survival. This study demonstrates the short- and long-term impacts of maternal death on children, families, and the community in orde...

The freedom of Zimbabwe from colonial rule in 1980 brought with it the vision of Education for All by the year 2000. A number of initiatives were implemented in order to benefit the once disadvantaged children who were kept out of school due to the discriminative colonial policies and the adverse effects of poverty. These new policies which accompanied the ushering in of independence were recei...

This paper describes the support systems available for orphans in a rural Luo community in Nyang'oma sub-location in Bondo District of Western Kenya. Qualitative data were collected through in-depth interviews with orphaned children and their caretakers as well as key informants, and through focus group discussions with orphaned children, widows and community elders. Quantitative data were obta...

The aims of this paper were to evaluate the nutritional status of children orphaned by aids or homicides in the city of São Paulo and to estimate the association of nutritional indexes with orphanhood-related variables. The study was a household survey carried out between 2006 and 2007. We sampled 484 children representative of São Paulo, 5-14 years old who lost either or both of their parents ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine the impact of the domestic care environment on the prevalence of potentially traumatic events (PTEs) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among orphaned and separated children in Uasin Gishu County, western Kenya. METHODS A total of 1565 (55.5% male) orphaned and separated adolescents aged 10-18 years (mean 13.8 years, sd 2.2), were assesse...

OBJECTIVES We evaluated the combined influences of orphaned status and homelessness on HIV seroprevalence and risk among street-involved Ukrainian youth in 2008. DESIGN Systematic, multicity, community-based, cross-sectional assessment. METHODS Time-location sampling was used to identify eligible youth aged 15-24 after city-wide mapping of 91 sites where street-involved youth gathered in Od...