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The Children of Africa Confront AIDS : From Vulnerability to Possibility.
AIDS is now the leading cause of death in Africa, where twenty-eight million people are HIV-positive, and where some twelve million children have lost one or both parents to AIDS. In Zimbabwe, 45 percent of children under the age of five are HIV-positive, and the epidemic has shortened life expectan...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens, OH :
Ohio University Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | Research in international studies. Africa series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | AIDS is now the leading cause of death in Africa, where twenty-eight million people are HIV-positive, and where some twelve million children have lost one or both parents to AIDS. In Zimbabwe, 45 percent of children under the age of five are HIV-positive, and the epidemic has shortened life expectancy by twenty-two years. A fifteen-year-old in Botswana or South Africa has a one-in-two chance of dying of AIDS. AIDS deaths are so widespread in sub-Saharan Africa that small children now play a new game called "Funerals." The Children of Africa Confront AIDS depicts the reality of how African ch |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (284 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780896804456 0896804453 |