Mbuya's story: a grandmother's story, Lusaka, Zambia -- Extended families: an aunt's story, Kampala, Uganda -- Strangers step in: the tale of two foster parents, South Africa -- Childcare by committee: a social worker's story, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa -- Hope in the hills: 'cluster fostering' in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa -- Institutionalised: an orphanage in Cape Town, South Africa -- A hundred dollars for a bull: a social worker's story, Luweero District, Uganda -- Foreign aid or interference?: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Lusaka, Zambia -- A mother to her brothers: a child-headed household's story, Johannesburg, South Africa -- Falling through the net: a street child's story, Lusaka, Zambia.
Summary:
AIDS has ravaged Africa, South of the Sahara, the epidemic is catastrophic. Every day seventeen hundred South Africans contract HIV, and in Botswana over a third of adults are infected. With the death toll ever increasing, this book explores how governments, charities and families are responding to the next wave of the crisis--millions of orphaned children.
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