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One million AIDS orphans by 2000

    NAIROBI

    Tanzania will have up to one million children orphaned by AIDS by the year 2000, government estimates and UNICEF information indicate. “The exact figure is not available but according to cases cited and information that reaches us, the estimate is between 800,000 and one million,” a UNICEF consultant in Dar es Salaam told IRIN on Thursday. UNICEF spokesman Robert Tyabji said the agency had initiated “orphan care” projects in 55 districts under its Child Survival Protection and Development Programme (CSPDP). The government had set up a fund to help pay for the education of orphans living in foster families, he added.

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