Background: Orofacial manifestations are among the earliest and the most common clinical signs of pediatric human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease. Most of these children are orphaned early and are taken care of by social organizations or relatives who lack adequate knowledge and awareness regarding their general or oral health. Methods: In this study, oral manifestations in 90 HIV-positive...

This article presents a new analysis of the distribution apprenticeships brokered by London Foundling Hospital, England’s pre-eminent charitable foundation in eighteenth century for orphaned and abandoned children. It explores similarities differences between charity apprenticeship parish systems supplying pauper children’s labour during critical first phase English Industrial Revolution, withi...

BACKGROUND Approximately 153 million children worldwide are orphaned and vulnerable to potentially traumatic events (PTEs). Gender differences in PTEs in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) are not well-understood, although support services and prevention programs often primarily involve girls. METHODS The Positive Outcomes for Orphans study used a two-stage, cluster-randomized sampling d...

It is estimated that Malawi has about 900,000 orphans, the majority of whom are orphaned as a result of AIDS. Orphans in rural areas are mostly neglected by economic and social empowerment initiatives. This study was conducted to explore the living situation of orphans in rural Thyolo District, southern Malawi. Qualitative methodology was used in data collection and analysis to explore orphan c...

Covid-19 has not only killed more than four million people worldwide but also left at least one orphans, a study published in the Lancet estimated.1 A person under 18 loses caregiver to covid every 12 seconds, say study’s authors, and toll continues grow, even as pandemic recedes. “For two covid-19 deaths worldwide, child is behind face death of parent or caregiver,” said Susan Hillis, lead a...

Abstract The present study, authored by a legal historian, examines the relationship between history and folklore through an investigation, centered on market town of Szentes, one distinctive group towns in Hungary's Southern Great Plain, that emerged at end 18th century as result historical antecedents well demographic, economic, social changes. system norms values, customary law, wealth devel...

T he recently published World Health Organization (WHO) 2011 Global Report [1] provides important new information on the status of the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic and better estimates are now available on different indicators of TB control. These were possible thanks to new methodologies used to measure the disease, producing more precise figures on mortality, number of children orphaned by TB, ...

BACKGROUND More than 153 million children worldwide have been orphaned by the loss of one or both parents, and millions more have been abandoned. We investigated relationships between the health of orphaned and abandoned children (OAC) and child, caregiver, and household characteristics among randomly selected OAC in five countries. METHODOLOGY Using a two-stage random sampling strategy in 6 ...