In crisis

By Professor Helen Penn, Nursery World, 29 April 2004

The HIV/Aids pandemic in Africa has left a generation of orphans fending for themselves. Professor Helen Penn recalls what she witnessed on an EU project in Swaziland Fourteen million children worldwide are estimated to be HIV/AIDS orphans.

The HIV/Aids pandemic in Africa has left a generation of orphans fending for themselves. Professor Helen Penn recalls what she witnessed on an EU project in Swaziland Fourteen million children worldwide are estimated to be HIV/AIDS orphans. They have lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS. Many of those children themselves are suffering from the virus. In some countries in southern Africa, almost...

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