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Rural kids lose education over AIDS - report

    JOHANNESBURG

    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.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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