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This 10 page paper explores the plight of the African “AIDS orphans,” children who have been orphaned by the death of their parents from AIDS. These children face significant difficulties not faced by other children who are orphaned in other ways. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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difficult enough, but children who lose their parents to AIDS seemingly face a whole additional set of problems beyond what one normally associates with this type of loss. First, children
whose parents are HIV positive "often experience many negative changes in their lives and can start to suffer neglect, including emotional neglect, long before they are orphaned" (AIDS orphans, 2008).
This is not surprising, since people fighting a life-threatening illness have nothing to spare for others but devote all of their physical and emotional energy to maintaining their own life.
But the result is that the AIDS orphans are already suffering long before their parents die; when that happens, they have to try and adjust to the loss, often with
"little or no support" (AIDS orphans, 2008). In addition, they may be abused and exploited (AIDS orphans, 2008). In a study done in rural Uganda, researchers found "high levels of
psychological distress" in AIDS orphans (AIDS orphans, 2008). Emotions such as depression, anger and anxiety were more common in the AIDS orphans than in their peers; even more telling is
that fact that "12% of AIDS orphans affirmed that they wished they were dead, compared to 3% of other children interviewed" (AIDS orphans, 2008). To make matters worse, the psychological
problems experienced by AIDS orphans are exacerbated if they are separated from their siblings when they are orphaned (AIDS orphans, 2008). The study notes that this type of forced separation
occurs regularly in some areas; in Zambia, for instance, a survey showed "56% of orphaned children no longer lived with all of their siblings" (AIDS orphans, 2008). There is also
a great impact on the household when children are orphaned by AIDS. The loss of one or both parents to this disease "can have serious consequences for a childs access
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