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Malawi]] An AIDS orphan is a child who became an orphan because one or both parents died from AIDS. In statistics from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the term is used for a child whose mother has died due to AIDS before the child's 15th birthday, regardless of whether the father is still alive.[1] As a result of this definition, one study estimated that 80% of all AIDS orphans still have one living parent.[2] There are 70,000 new AIDS orphans a year.[3] By the year 2010, it is estimated that over 20 million children will be orphaned by AIDS.[4] Because AIDS affects mainly those who are sexually active, AIDS-related deaths are often people who are their family's primary wage earners. The resulting AIDS orphans frequently depend on the state for care and financial support, particularly in Africa.[5] The highest number of orphans due to AIDS alive in 2007 was in South Africa[5] (although the definition of AIDS orphan in South African statistics includes children up to the age of 18 who have lost either biological parent).[6] In 2005 the highest number of AIDS orphans as a percentage of all orphans was in Zimbabwe.[5] See also References - ↑ UNAIDS.org PDF
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- ↑ AIDS Orphan's Preventable Death Challenges Those Left Behind, by Tony Karon, June 01, 2001
- ↑ Project Aids Orphan
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- ↑ children count Government of South Africa
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