The Children of Africa Confront AIDS: From Vulnerability to Possibility

by W. Stephen Howard

Book Overview

AIDS is now the leading cause of death in Africa, where twenty-eight million people are HIV-positive, and where some twelve million children have lost one or both parents to AIDS. In Zimbabwe, 45 percent of children under the age of five are HIV-positive, and the epidemic has shortened life expectancy by twenty-two years. A fifteen-year-old in Botswana or South Africa has a one-in-two chance of dying of AIDS. AIDS deaths are so widespread in sub-Saharan...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896802329
• ISBN13: 9780896802322
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.7"