AIDS
AIDS is wreaking havoc on the African continent. Right now tens of millions of people are living with the disease. In Kenya alone over 1.5 million have died from the disease, and an estimated 2.5 million of its 31.6 million citizens are currently HIV infected. Life expectancy has dropped to 45 years and as many as 1.2 million Kenyan children have lost at least one parent. Many are orphans.
What is particularly insidious about the disease is that because it afflicts so many in the adult population, the functioning of the entire community is devastated. As a result children are often raised by other children or if they are fortunate an elderly relative.
