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    An estimated 1,500 children in Burundi remain separated from their families, SCF has said. In an emergency bulletin, SCF said the situation was due to the country’s war, population displacements, the breakdown of the family, poverty and other factors. An SCF-coordinated family-tracing programme has already reunited 502 unaccompanied children with their families, it said. Meanwhile, some 110,000 children in Burundi have lost one or both parents to AIDS, representing the sixth-highest proportion of AIDS orphans in the world, the report stated. The reluctance of donors to provide funds for anything except emergency projects in the country “undermines the long-term approach to which SCF is committed”, it added.

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