uccession Planning in Uganda: Early Outreach for AIDS-affected Children and Their Families
- Author:
- Horizons
- Publisher:
- Horizons
- Publication Date:
- 1 May 2003
- Tags:
- HIV-Aids and STDs, Children and Youth, Uganda
"Uganda has been widely recognized for lowering HIV incidence (Asiimwe-Okiror et al. 1997; Hogle 2002). However, because so many adults were previously infected and given the long period between HIV infection and death from AIDS, the number of orphaned children is still rising. By the end of 2001, there were were 880,000 children under the age of 15 living in Uganda who had lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS 2002)."
