GLOBAL PROBLEM
Presently there are 40
million people infected with HIV/AIDS globally, with more being infected
every day. HIV/AIDS is 100% fatal if left untreated. The UN estimates that
68 million people will die in sub-Saharan Africa because of AIDS in the next
twenty years.
Poverty, disease, AIDS, war and famine are contributing to the increasing
growth of orphaned children. HIV/AIDS is the fastest growing cause.
Estimates of the rising number of orphans are alarming. This increase in
orphans is resulting in an enormous global child-care crisis. In a joint
study titled Children on the Brink 2002 by UNICEF, UNAIDS and USAID the
worldwide orphan population under the age of 15 is projected to reach 106
million by 2010. 25 million of the 106 million will be orphaned due to
HIV/AIDS.
In 1990 there were 7 million people infected with HIV/AIDS in
sub-Saharan Africa. In 2000 there were 25.3 million infected. 96 percent of
HIV infected persons live in developing nations where drug therapies are
largely unaffordable. Presently there are approximately 15 million children orphaned
by AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. That number is expected to grow to 40 million
in the next two decades.
3 million people died of AIDS in 2000. 12.1 million Children were
orphaned. Every 5 minutes 3 people die of HIV/AIDS. That is over 850 deaths
every day or 315,000 a year. Each death results in at least one more orphan.
Every minute 10 people are infected with HIV/AIDS, which equates to 600 new
infections an hour, 15,000 a day.
DAGO VILLAGE
Sony home based care dispensary in collaboration with Africa Medical Research Foundation (AMREF Kenya) provides the medical advice and supplies to our community.
*In Kenya, children who have lost both parents are referred to as total orphans and children who have lost one parent as partial orphans. As large families are the norm here, when one parent dies a single parent cannot meet the total needs of the family*.
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