| Strategies
and Determinants of Care for HIV Positive Orphan Children in India
The international crisis of orphan children can no longer be ignored.
Besides the children who are orphaned by civil wars, disease, acts
of god, and other means, the rate at which HIV/AIDS creates orphan
children is now an emergency that can no longer be overlooked, a
problem that refuses to be controlled, and a future that shows little
sign for hope. The HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to spiral out of
control in Sub-Saharan Africa just as it swells dangerously in India,
China, and Southeast Asia, where over 40% of the world’s population
lives. Beyond the individual devastation inflicted directly on people
living with HIV/AIDS (PLHAs), each infection also carries with it
an extensive social network of destruction. Families, friends, communities,
and especially the children suffer as they must witness the misery
and trauma of HIV/AIDS, bear the stigma of coming from a family
affected by AIDS, lose income and stability, only to finally lose
one or both parents to the disease. Moreover, some children also
have the added burden of infection themselves, leaving them parentless,
alone, and infected with HIV.
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