Abstract : HIV/AIDS. The 1997 version, the first comprehensive global estimates of orphans of HIV and other causes, helped raise world awareness of the impending calamity of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in developing countries.
In the two-and-a-half years since Children on the Brink was published, over 5 million adults have died from HIV/AIDS (98 percent in developing countries), leaving at least that many new orphans.
This executive summary of Children on the Brink 2000
includes:
1. New orphan estimates for 34 countries (See Appendix I for statistical tables and figures.)
2. A description of what children, families and communities are doing to address their growing orphan problems.
3. Strategies for intervention that have been adopted.
4. A new strategic agenda to guide coherent action by the world community (executive summary)