TheOrphan Children on the Brink examines
the changing developmental needs of orphans
and other children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS
as they progress through childhood in Kisoro district. From infancy through age 17, a child passes through a number of life-cycle stages. HIV starts to affect a child early in a parent’s illness, and its impact continues
through the course of the illness and throughout
the child’s development after the parent’s death.
Children who are deprived of the guidance and
protection of their primary caregivers are more
vulnerable to health risks, violence, exploitation,
and discrimination. Policymakers, leaders and practitioners in public health and other development
sectors, and communities and families need to
provide care and support to orphans (from all causes)
and children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS with an understanding of their stages of development and changing needs.We need to work upon the challenges faced by these children and revive their conflicting motive and they also feel parented even though their parents are not alive
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