title: Africa's emerging AIDS-orphans crisis.
abstract: Although AIDS has had a huge impact around the world, nowhere has its effect been greater than in Africa. In Zambia alone the disease is expected to create 500,000 orphans by the turn of the century. In this article Dr. Rachel Baggaley and Dale Needham examine the huge social problems AIDS is creating in some of the world's poorest countries.
authors.affiliation: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Baggaley
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Needham
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D000349:Africa / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D005581:Foster Home Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012940:Social Problems