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September 16, 2014

Southern Africa: AIDS has left families headed by kids, grandparents

Hilda Simon prepares her granddaughter, Annie, 10, for school in 2011 at a village in Chikwawa, Malawi. With the highest levels of HIV prevalence globally, southern African countries have seen families torn apart by AIDS, with children left to raise youn ger siblings and sick children left in the care of elderly grandparents.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa - With the highest levels of HIV prevalence globally, southern African countries have seen families torn apart by AIDS, with children left to raise younger siblings and sick children left in the care of elderly grandparents.

Published in International