Children of AIDS : Africa's orphan crisis / Emma Guest.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guest, Emma, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--Africa.

AIDS (Disease).

Children of AIDS patients--Services for--Africa.

Children of AIDS patients.

Orphans--Services for--Africa.

Orphans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press ; Pietermaritzburg, South Africa : University of Natal Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'This brave and moving book forces us to open our eyes to the full extent of the devastation that AIDS is causing in Africa. Through the words of AIDS orphans and those struggling to cope with the flood of unwanted children, Children of AIDS serves as a wake-up call for the international community.' Susan Sarandon'An important and timely book on a devastating crisis.' Fergal Keane'Guest compresses her research on this enormously explosive crisis into a short and tightly structured book ... Her book will help to give a fuller understanding of the orphan crisis.' The Sunday Independent, South Africa'The author, a perceptive analyst of the ongoing AIDS tragedy, presents case studies of organized responses in three countries hit hard by the epidemic: Uganda, Zambia and South Africa. By exploring the social reality behind the numbing statistics, she makes possible more informed speculation about the economic, social and psychological impact of the disease in coming decades.' Foreign AffairsThis is the new, fully updated, first paperback edition of Emma Guest's acclaimed book that explores how the AIDs crisis has devastated the world's poorest continent, and shows how families, charities and governments are responding to the next wave of the crisis - millions of orphans.Based on extensive interviews, Guest lets people tell their own stories in their own words. The result is a moving and disturbing account of the experiences of orphans, street children, grandparents, aunts, foster parents, charity and social workers and foreign donors across South Africa, Zambia and Uganda.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Preface to the Second Edition

Introduction

Families Mbuya s Story

Extended Families

Strangers Step In

Projects Childcare by Committee

Hope in the hills

Institutionalised

A Hundred Dollars for a Bull

Foreign Aid or Interference?

A Mother to Her Brothers

Falling Through the Net

Conclusion

Notes

List of Organisations Featured in this Book

Index

Abandoned babies and children

41-2

45

47-9

58-62

71

76-8

85

87

90-1

96

134-5

157

160

Adoption

41

43-4

46

48

51-3

57-8

60-2

66

70

77

86

134

163

cultural barriers to 60-

transracial 47

transracial 57

transracial 163

African extended family

demographic affect 7

demographic affect 27

demographic affect 161

disease progression 20

disease progression 132

economic affect 2

economic affect 7

economic affect 159

impact on Africa ix, x, xi, 1-13

impact on Africa ix, x, xi, 157-61

impact on Africa ix, x, xi, 166

impact on households and families ix, 1

impact on households and families ix, 6-7

impact on households and families ix, 12

impact on households and families ix, 20

impact on households and families ix, 157

Aunts

11

18

25

28-40

see also Family, Grandmothers Beautiful Gate 17

see also Family, Grandmothers Beautiful Gate 85-96

see also Family, Grandmothers Beautiful Gate 165

Bereavement

24

47

76-7

83

89

107-8

131-3

142-3

159

counsellors in the United States xiii Child abuse 6

counsellors in the United States xiii Child abuse 12

counsellors in the United States xiii Child abuse 34

counsellors in the United States xiii Child abuse 51.

counsellors in the United States xiii Child abuse 57-8

counsellors in the United States xiii Child abuse 63

counsellors in the United States xiii Child abuse 76-7

counsellors in the United States xiii Child abuse 82

counsellors in the United States xiii Child abuse 107

counsellors in the United States xiii Child abuse 121

counsellors in the United States xiii Child abuse 134

counsellors in the United States xiii Child abuse 147

counsellors in the United States xiii Child abuse 157-8

counsellors in the United States xiii Child abuse 165

see also Sugar daddies Child-headed households 11

see also Sugar daddies Child-headed households 24

see also Sugar daddies Child-headed households 77-8

see also Sugar daddies Child-headed households 131-4

Child Welfare movement 41-54

170

Cape Town Child Welfare Society Johannesburg Child Welfare S

Cape Town Child Welfare Society 85-6

Children in Distress [CINDI], Zambia

22-5

158

169

Children in Need [CHIN] 117-18

Children's homes, see Orphanages Children in Distress [CINDI], KwaZulu-Natal

79-80

171

Chiluba, President Frederick 17

Cluster-fostering

childcare committees 16

childcare committees 58

childcare committees 62-4

childcare committees 67-70

childcare committees 98-9

see Fostering Community-based care 11

see Fostering Community-based care 23-4

see Fostering Community-based care 41

see Fostering Community-based care 57-9

see Fostering Community-based care 93

see Fostering Community-based care 123

see Fostering Community-based care 126

see Fostering Community-based care 163-5

Crime

12

147

151-4

157-9

161

165

Development work

for opportunistic infections 8

for opportunistic infections 10.

for sexually-transmitted diseases 8-9

for sexually-transmitted diseases 147

see Community-based care Donors, see Foreign aid Drugs, anti-retrovirals x, xi, 8-10

see Community-based care Donors, see Foreign aid Drugs, anti-retrovirals x, xi, 121

see Community-based care Donors, see Foreign aid Drugs, anti-retrovirals x, xi, 137

to prevent mother-to-child trans-mission of HIV 9

to prevent mother-to-child trans-mission of HIV 65

Family

10-12

27

146

165-6

inheritance theft 11

inheritance theft 137

inheritance theft 166

see also Aunts, Grandmothers Foreign aid xii, xiii, 9

see also Aunts, Grandmothers Foreign aid xii, xiii, 11-13

see also Aunts, Grandmothers Foreign aid xii, xiii, 66-7

see also Aunts, Grandmothers Foreign aid xii, xiii, 79

see also Aunts, Grandmothers Foreign aid xii, xiii, 82

see also Aunts, Grandmothers Foreign aid xii, xiii, 91-2

see also Aunts, Grandmothers Foreign aid xii, xiii, 97

see also Aunts, Grandmothers Foreign aid xii, xiii, 100-9

see also Aunts, Grandmothers Foreign aid xii, xiii, 113-27

see also Aunts, Grandmothers Foreign aid xii, xiii, 147-8

see also Aunts, Grandmothers Foreign aid xii, xiii, 162

see also Aunts, Grandmothers Foreign aid xii, xiii, 164-5

Fountain of Hope

144-56

173

community school 150

community school 153-4

community school 156

football team 154-

God's Golden Acre

71-84

Governmental responses

x

xii

xiii

2-3

6-13

17-18

20

26-7

37

57

64-7

69-70

78-9

99-100

113-24

126

136

162-3

Grandmothers

17-27

59-61

67

69

72

75-6

78

105-6

135-6

HIV-positive children.

HIV tests and seroconver-sion 14

HIV tests and seroconver-sion 14

HIV tests and seroconver-sion 42

HIV tests and seroconver-sion 46

Home-based care

10

19

93

132-3

Inheritance theft, see Family Institutional care, see Orphanages International assistance, see Foreign aid Kenya

1

4

Mbeki, President Thabo

3

6

9

16

65

Medication, see Drugs Memory books 36-7

Moi, President Daniel arap

8

114

Mourning, see Bereavement Museveni, Janet 39

Museveni, President Yoweri

7-8

National Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS [NACWOLA]

36-7

Nazareth House

88-90

92-4

Nkosi's Haven

136-9

172

Non-governmental organisations [NGOs]

credit schemes 12

credit schemes 24-5

credit schemes 39

credit schemes 164

grant schemes 97

grant schemes 99

grant schemes 104-7

grant schemes 164

x, xi, xii, xiii, 4

x, xi, xii, xiii, 8

x, xi, xii, xiii, 10

x, xi, xii, xiii, 12-13

x, xi, xii, xiii, 22-4

x, xi, xii, xiii, 29-39

x, xi, xii, xiii, 41-2

x, xi, xii, xiii, 44-52

x, xi, xii, xiii, 62

x, xi, xii, xiii, 64

x, xi, xii, xiii, 66

x, xi, xii, xiii, 70

x, xi, xii, xiii, 79

x, xi, xii, xiii, 108

x, xi, xii, xiii, 113

x, xi, xii, xiii, 116-17

x, xi, xii, xiii, 120-2

x, xi, xii, xiii, 125

x, xi, xii, xiii, 158

x, xi, xii, xiii, 162-3

x, xi, xii, xiii, 165

x, xi, xii, xiii, 169-73

Political instability

125

Project Concern International [PCI] 147-8

Rape, see Child abuse Red Cross 93

Residential care, see Orphanages Save the Children Fund 36

Senegal

162

Sex education

morale 51.

morale 57-8

see also Straight Talk Foundation Sexual abuse, see Child abuse Social workers ix, xiii, 12

see also Straight Talk Foundation Sexual abuse, see Child abuse Social workers ix, xiii, 23

see also Straight Talk Foundation Sexual abuse, see Child abuse Social workers ix, xiii, 41-2

see also Straight Talk Foundation Sexual abuse, see Child abuse Social workers ix, xiii, 44-52

see also Straight Talk Foundation Sexual abuse, see Child abuse Social workers ix, xiii, 57-70

see also Straight Talk Foundation Sexual abuse, see Child abuse Social workers ix, xiii, 83

see also Straight Talk Foundation Sexual abuse, see Child abuse Social workers ix, xiii, 85-9

see also Straight Talk Foundation Sexual abuse, see Child abuse Social workers ix, xiii, 97-109

see also Straight Talk Foundation Sexual abuse, see Child abuse Social workers ix, xiii, 135

see also Straight Talk Foundation Sexual abuse, see Child abuse Social workers ix, xiii, 137-8

see also Straight Talk Foundation Sexual abuse, see Child abuse Social workers ix, xiii, 142

training 7

training 57-8

South Africa

Cape Town x, 85-96

child welfare system 41

child welfare system 57-8

government grants 57

government grants 59

government grants 66-7

government grants 80

government grants 86

government grants 91

government grants 136

government responses x, 3

government responses x, 6

government responses x, 9

government responses x, 41-2

government responses x, 57

government responses x, 64-7

government responses x, 69-70

government responses x, 78-9

x, xi, 3-4

x, xi, 7

x, xi, 44

x, xi, 108

x, xi, 120

x, xi, 124

x, xi, 160

x, xi, 163

x, xi, 165

Stigma.

AIDS-related euphemisms 6.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-168) and index.

ISBN:

9781849641982

1849641986

9780585488882

0585488886

OCLC:

923334867