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Children bear the brunt of AIDS crisis

"If my mother and father were alive today, I would tell them: 'life has been very hard since you left'." Brighton Gweshe, aged 16, who for the past eight years has looked after his younger brother, Collins. Across sub-Saharan Africa there are an estimated Obinna Anyadike/IRIN
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    The death of a parent turns a child's life upside down, but when AIDS is the cause, the tragedy is magnified. Unlike other illnesses, there is a strong likelihood the second parent will also succumb to debilitating sickness and die. IRIN/PlusNews spoke to two children about the challenges they have faced.

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