Battersea Park Walk
Sunday 19 August 2007

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Aids orphans - the facts

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African AIDS orphans - the facts

At the end of 2005 an estimated 15 million children worldwide has been orphaned by AIDS. The vast majority of them - about 12 million - live in sub-Saharan Africa. Here are a few more key figures:

• Globally 1,400 children under 15 die of AIDS-related illnesses every day
• Over 6,000 young people aged 15 to 24 are newly infected with HIV every day
• 87% of children living with HIV live in Sub-Saharan Africa
• £800 can train 20 health workers in providing child friendly services in Mozambique
• £10 can provide seeds for an orphan to grow food in South Africa
• £750 can pay for a travelling theatre teaching people about HIV to reach 7 districts
• £1.50 can pay for a memory book for a child with a critically ill parent.

What does Save the Children do in Africa?

In Africa we carry out HIV prevention work such as peer-education projects where children educate each other on HIV issues and prevention strategies. We also aim to prevent children becoming orphaned by advocating for treatment access for their mothers and looking for ways to alleviate family poverty. For children who have already lost their parents we work with community members, social workers, teachers and health workers to ensure that they are able to provide quality, child-friendly care and support. Find out more about our HIV and AIDS work.

What do we want?

We want to reduce the number of children becoming orphans, and to build communities’ ability to protect, care for and educate children who have already lost their parents:

• increased access to treatment - investment in paediatric treatments, and access to treatments for mothers
• better care and support of orphans.