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An enumeration of orphans and analysis of the problems and wishes of orphans: the case of Kariba, Zimbabwe

open access: yesSAHARA-J, 2008
In southern Africa, HIV and AIDS accounts for the largest proportion of orphans. Very often the orphaned children become destitute, and young girls in particular become more vulnerable to HIV and AIDS as they try to fend for the rest of the family.
Jaqualine F Mangoma   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Subjective well-being among AIDS orphans in southwest China: the role of school connectedness, peer support, and resilience

open access: yesBMC Psychiatry, 2022
Background Few studies have explored the health and development of AIDS orphans using the positive youth development (PYD) framework. Grounded in this framework, the main objective of this study is to examine how internal assets (i.e., resilience) and ...
Shimin Lai   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Orphans in the Market: The History of Orphan Drug Policy [PDF]

open access: yesSocial History of Medicine, 2017
Summary This paper examines the history of orphan drug policy, from the emergence of ‘orphans’ in the American pharmaceutical market in the 1960s, through the debates and agitations that resulted in the passage of the US Orphan Drug Act of 1983, to attempts in the 1990s to prevent abuse of that Act and restore its original intentions ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Experience in the Treatment of Chronic Viral Hepatitis C in Children Born to HIV-positive Women

open access: yesДетские инфекции (Москва), 2015
The article presents information obtained from the analysis of the stories of 40 children up to 4 years old left without parental care and infected with hepatitis C through vertical transmission.
V. N. Timchenko   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of oral diseases on daily activities among 12- to 15-year-old institutionalized orphan and non-orphan children in Bengaluru city: A cross-sectional analytical study

open access: yesIndian Journal of Dental Research, 2020
Background and Objective: As parents are the primary decision-makers of child's health, a study was conducted to assess and compare the oral health status and impact of oral diseases on daily activities among 12- to 15-year-old institutionalized orphan ...
Varsha K Pavithran   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

'The Beast from the East'

open access: yesJournal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, 2021
This article analyzes characters in North American popular culture who migrated from the post-socialist world to the United States and other western countries. It focuses on the Anglo-Ukrainian clone Helena in the television show Orphan Black (Space/BBC
Katharina Wiedlack
doaj   +1 more source

System of Trusteeship for Women of Clerical Rank in Tobolsk Diocese in 1820—1830s

open access: yesНаучный диалог, 2021
The question of providing financial assistance to women of clerical rank in the Tobolsk diocese in the 1820—1830s is considered. The results of a comparative analysis of the stages and terms of office work on this issue before and after the opening of ...
A. V. Spichak
doaj   +1 more source

A Comparative study of half-orphan and double-orphan adolescents to explore the psychological well-being in orphanage of district Srinagar, Kashmir

open access: yesIndian Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2019
Introduction: The impact of orphanhood on the mental health of adolescents is an inevitable phenomenon. This impact is raised when an adolescent loses both of his/her parents.
Tabasum Dilawar Malla   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Modern problems of orphans [PDF]

open access: yesСовременная зарубежная психология, 2015
The article analyses the foreign publications, concerning the main problems of children left without parental care. It provides international statistics on the number of orphans in the world. The article analyses the situation of orphans in Africa, whose
Larin A.N., Konopleva I.N.
doaj   +1 more source

Gut microbiota–derived short‐chain fatty acids regulate group 3 innate lymphoid cells in HCC

open access: yesHepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract Background and Aims Type 3 innate lymphoid cells (ILC3s) are essential for host defense against infection and tissue homeostasis. However, their role in the development of HCC has not been adequately confirmed. In this study, we investigated the immunomodulatory role of short‐chain fatty acids (SCFAs) derived from intestinal microbiota in ILC3
Chupeng Hu   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

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