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World health dilemmas: Orphan and rare diseases, orphan drugs and orphan patients
World Journal of Methodology, 2014 According to global annual estimates hunger/malnutrition is the major cause of death (36 of 62 million). Cardiovascular diseases and cancer (5.44 of 13.43 million) are the major causes of death in developed countries, while lower respiratory tract infections, human immunodeficiency virus infection/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, diarrhoeal disease,
Christina N, Kontoghiorghe +3 more
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Hope as the Mediator in the Relation Between Resilience and Life Satisfaction among Tibetan Orphans
SAGE OpenAs an extremely disadvantaged group, orphans have received extensive attention from researchers. However, previous research focused on their survival status and psychological distress.
Wei Yan +5 more
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Lessons from writing sessions: a school-based randomized trial with adolescent orphans in Rwanda [PDF]
European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2014 Background: Treatments for adolescents affected by long-term loss in low- and middle-income countries are lacking. As school-based interventions are cost-efficient and easy to disseminate, an evaluation of this treatment setting for adolescents is ...
Johanna Unterhitzenberger, Rita Rosner
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Namibia research situation analysis on orphans and other vulnerable children [PDF]
, 2009 This item is archived in the repository for materials published for the USAID supported Orphans and Vulnerable Children Comprehensive Action Research Project (OVC-CARE) at the Boston University Center for Global Health and Development.Addressing the ...
Beard, Jennifer +8 more
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Helping the World\u27s Poor [PDF]
, 2007 What began as a health screening project for orphans ended with eye-opening lessons on the struggles facing some of the world’s most vulnerable ...
Mileham, Mardi
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The experiences of family caregivers concerning their care of HIV/AIDS orphans
South African Family Practice, 2009 Introduction: The HIV/AIDS pandemic is reducing life expectancy and raising mortality. An increasing orphan population is perhaps the most tragic and long-term legacy of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Kefilwe E. Hlabyago +1 more
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Kenya’s Life Lessons through the Lived Experience of Rural Caregivers
Social Sciences, 2017 This qualitative research study used a phenomenological lens to examine the perspectives of familial caregivers in the Laikipia Region of Kenya. Through the narrative of the caregivers’ lived experience, key factors identified included social supports ...
Amy Cappiccie +2 more
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Sahel Medical Journal, 2011 Background: Children are orphaned by AIDS when either or both their parents die from AIDS related ′llnesses. With the National response to combat AIDS orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) situation in Nigeria and in an era of free antiretroviral therapy
W E Sadoh, A E Sadoh, N J Iduoriyekemwen
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You’re an Orphan When Science Fiction Raises You
American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2020 In Among Others, Jo Walton’s fairy story about a science-fiction fan, science fiction as a genre and archive serves as an adoptive parent for Morwenna Markova as much as the extended family who provide the more conventional parenting in the absence of ...
Halpin Jenni G.
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Orphanhood and Schooling in South Africa: Trends in the vulnerability of orphans between 1993 and 2005 [PDF]
Using 11 nationally representative surveys conducted between 1993 and 2005 this paper assesses the extent to which the vulnerability of orphans to poorer educational outcomes has changed over time as the AIDS crisis deepens in South Africa.
Cally Ardington
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