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Regional research to improve AIDS orphan care

    JOHANNESBURG

    A cross-disciplinary research team is developing intervention strategies to care for children and orphans affected by or living with HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa.

    According to Dr Donald Skinner from South Africa's Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), the five-year project has been concentrating on Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe, and will now extend its work to Lesotho, Mozambique and Swaziland.

    The South African Press Association quoted Skinner as saying, "The main aim of the project is to improve the social conditions, health, space for personal development and quality of life of vulnerable children and orphans."

    The UN Children's Fund estimates that Southern Africa will have 11.2 million orphans by 2010, more than half as a result of AIDS.

    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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