Grandparents taking care of their grand children
HIV perception has been going around patients, treatment, sexualbehaviour, transmission, poverty and other factors surrounding thepatients.Paul Farmer called a book after a Haiti proverb "Mountains beyondmountains" which is pointing at the fact of having new problems eachtime we overcome certain problems.Today HIV is letting grand parents take care of their childrenfunerals instead of the other way round, and the grand parents wouldtake care of their grand children instead of playing with them.Ark Foundation of Africa is going to launch a new book called "Africa,AIDS Orphans and their Grandparents: Benefits and Preventable HiddenDangers" on Nov.29,2006 at Pangea Cafe, Washington.About the bookIn Africa, an estimated 14 million children under the age of 18 havelost one or both parents to AIDS and the number continues to rise.Nearly one-quarter of AIDS orphans lose a parent or both parentsbefore their fifth birthday. The book, Africa, AIDS Orphans and theirGrandparents: Benefits and Preventable Hidden Dangers, reports on the15-yeaar study that took place in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. It waswritten to help raise awareness about the AIDS orphan crisis in Africaand the daily challenges faced by grandparents who care for them. Theauthors document the crisis and struggle of ailing Africangrandparents caring for AIDS orphans. This work reports on thetroubling neglect and lack of global awareness on the safety ofchildren under the care of African grandparents. Even when Africangrandparents do everything they can to care for AIDS orphans, mostchildren feel very neglected.
Among the key findings
Even though grandparents feel it's their duty to step in and help, 93%reported that the lack of money is a big problem. 48% reported goingan entire day without food even with sick children and 89% give up and neglected by society. 37% of the teenage orphans living withgrandparents reported having undergone an abortion and 15% of theteens knew of an orphan who might have died of an abortion gone wrong.Many of these grandparents have reported serious physical injuries asa result of picking up and carrying sick babies.
healthcare for lack of money. 91% – admitted that they felt forgottenand neglected by society. 37% of the teenage orphans living withgrandparents reported having undergone an abortion and 15% of theteens knew of an orphan who might have died of an abortion gone wrong.Many of these grandparents have reported serious physical injuries asa result of picking up and carrying sick babies.For more information on this topic or to see excerpts from the book,please visit, http://www.arkafrica.org
Among the key findings
Even though grandparents feel it's their duty to step in and help, 93%reported that the lack of money is a big problem. 48% reported goingan entire day without food even with sick children and 89% give up and neglected by society. 37% of the teenage orphans living withgrandparents reported having undergone an abortion and 15% of theteens knew of an orphan who might have died of an abortion gone wrong.Many of these grandparents have reported serious physical injuries asa result of picking up and carrying sick babies.
healthcare for lack of money. 91% – admitted that they felt forgottenand neglected by society. 37% of the teenage orphans living withgrandparents reported having undergone an abortion and 15% of theteens knew of an orphan who might have died of an abortion gone wrong.Many of these grandparents have reported serious physical injuries asa result of picking up and carrying sick babies.For more information on this topic or to see excerpts from the book,please visit, http://www.arkafrica.org
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