CNN: Christiane Amanpour: World fails to save Africa's AIDS orphans

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Amanpour: World fails to save Africa's AIDS orphans
Africa's HIV-infected children also ignored
By Christiane Amanpour
Monday, July 17, 2006

Editor's note: CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour traveled to Kenya as part of a special documentary, "Where Have All the Parents Gone?," which looks at the millions of AIDS orphans now living on their own.


CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour at a village in Kenya.

ISIOLA, Kenya (CNN) -- AIDS invaded our consciousness 25 years ago. A whole generation around the world has now grown up knowing only a world with AIDS.

We have watched the efforts to find a vaccine, to find drugs to control the disease, to educate people about preventive measures, and to end the stigma of AIDS.

There have been many successes in helping adults with the disease, but when it comes to the children, the world has failed dismally.

Millions and millions of AIDS orphans are the devastating legacy of this epidemic. Africans suffer the most.

According to the United Nations, there are 12 million AIDS orphans in sub-Saharan Africa alone, and in four short years that number will skyrocket to 18.4 million. That means AIDS orphans will make up 15 to 20 percent of the population in some African countries....

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/07/17/amanpour.africa.btsc/index.html

[AlamoDemoc]

1. She's Iranian, raised in england...she better report the news proper

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2. A Responsible Jounalist in my view....

She is one of my fave reporters/commentators....

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3. mine also.

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4. "Where Have All the Parents Gone?," powerful phase