The impact of HIV/AIDS and poverty is causing many rural South African children to miss school, the Human Sciences Research Council and Nelson Mandela Foundation said in a new report.
Titled 'Emerging Voices', the report "sketches a bleak picture" of many children affected by HIV/AIDS being "forced" to drop out of school.
According to Agence France-Presse, the document showed how children also had to cope with problems arising from parents living with HIV and AIDS, and that "ill-health" among family members was cited by 57 percent of parents and guardians as reasons for children missing school.
A striking 65 percent of children interviewed also reported that no one at home was sufficiently educated to assist them with schoolwork.
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