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Millions of AIDS orphans strain Southern Africa New York Times Southern Africa is increasingly home to children robbed of their childhood by AIDS and staggering under adult-size hardships. The United Nations Children's Fund estimates in a new report that 11 million children under 15 in sub-Saharan Africa have lost at least one parent to AIDS. About a third of them have lost both parents. By 2010, Unicef predicts, AIDS will have claimed at least one of the parents of 15 percent of the region's children — 20 million in all.
—Posted: December 24, 2003
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