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 While AIDS ravages men and women by the millions across sub-Saharan Africa, their deaths leave millions of children behind. More than 14 million children worldwide have lost one or both parents to AIDS. More than 25 million will suffer the same loss in the next eight years. One-third of all children orphaned by the pandemic are under the age of 5.
In addition, the disease has made millions more children vulnerable, as they care for their own sick parents, or share resources when their healthy parents take in orphans or sick relatives.
Dr. Milton Amayun, World Vision’s Senior HIV/AIDS Program Representative and Advisor is a program specialist on efforts to help children orphaned and made vulnerable by the AIDS pandemic. Dr. Amayun spoke November 11 at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting on “Linking U.S. and African churches to meet the coming tidal wave of orphans and widows.”
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