Children of AIDS by Emma Guest
This is the new, fully updated, first paperback edition of Emma Guest's acclaimed book that explores how the AIDs crisis has devastated the world's poorest continent, and shows how families, charities and governments are responding to the next wave of the crisis - millions of orphans. Based on extensive interviews, Guest lets people tell their own stories in their own words. The result is a moving and disturbing account of the experiences of orphans, street children, grandparents, aunts, foster parents, charity and social workers and foreign donors across South Africa, Zambia and Uganda.
'Emma Guest has thrown a beam of light on one of the areas of darkness in the HIV/AIDS epidemic - the plight of millions of children whose parents have been fatal casualties of this diseaseAIDS orphans have received far less attention from governments, scientists and funders, than they deserve. This book is a richly textured weave of the personal stories of AIDS orphans in Africa and therefore complements the formal presentations in lecture theatres and policy boardrooms.' Professor Hoosen Coovadia, Department of Paediatrics & Child Health, University of Natal
Emma Guest has lived in South Africa and travelled throughout the African continent. A former communications manager for the charity Samaritans, she is currently a freelance writer on AIDS-related issues.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780745317694 |
| ISBN 10 | 0745317693 |
| Title | Children of AIDS |
| Author | Emma Guest |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pluto Press |
| Year published | 2001-07-20 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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