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Learning to Be an Orangutan—Implications of Life History for Orangutan Rehabilitation

open access: yesAnimals, 2021
Orangutans depend on social learning for the acquisition of survival skills. The development of skills is not usually assessed in rescued orphans’ pre-release.
Signe Preuschoft   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Enabling households to support successful migration of AIDS orphans in southern Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Most southern African orphans are cared for by extended families but the implications of the spatial dispersal of such families are seldom recognised: orphans often have to migrate to new homes and communities.
Ansell, N   +5 more
core   +1 more source

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

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

From novice to expert: agroecological competences of children orphaned by AIDS compared to non-orphans in Benin [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Background AIDS has created new vulnerabilities for rural African households due to prime-age adult mortality and is assumed to lead to impairment of the intergenerational transfer of farming knowledge.
Fagbemissi Rose C   +5 more
core   +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

Surrogate parenting : exploring the perceptions of challenges faced by grandmothers of AIDS orphans with regard to child rearing in Khayelitsha [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 70-75).The research investigated the perceptions of the challenges faced by grandmothers caring for AIDS orphans in Khayelitsha, a township on the outskirts of Cape Town.
Nyatsanza, Memory Nyasha Lynnette
core   +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

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