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Assessing the Welfare of Orphans in Rwanda: Poverty, Work, Schooling, and Health [PDF]

open access: yes
One of the aspects of the orphan crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa relates to time use, namely where orphans end up living and what they spend their time doing in their new household of adoption.
Siaens, Corinne   +2 more
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Vietnam research situation analysis on orphans and other vulnerable children [PDF]

open access: yes, 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   +6 more
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Adult mortality and children’s transition into marriage [PDF]

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Adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS and other diseases is posited to affect children through a number of pathways. On top of health and education outcomes, adult mortality can have significant effects on children by influencing demographic outcomes including
Kathleen Beegle, Sofya Krutikova
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Children 'in need of care' or in need of cash? Questioning social security provisions for orphans in the context of the South African AIDS pandemic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Joint working paper of the Children's Institute and Centre for Actuarial Research, University of Cape ...
Meintjes, Helen   +3 more
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Children's school participation and HIV/AIDS in rural Malawi:: The role of parental knowledge and perceptions

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2008
Studies of the relationship between HIV/AIDS and children's educational attainment largely focus on the direct impacts of parental illness and death, overlooking the potential indirect impact that parental knowledge and perceptions of their HIV status ...
Monica J. Grant
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The Stories Behind the Story (Foreword and Introduction to Introducing Evangelical Ecotheology: Foundations in Scripture, Theology, History, and Praxis)

open access: yes, 2014
Excerpt: Nathan and I (Dan) pulled into the Mbanhela community in the Gaza province of Mozambique and were greeted by the high-spirited singing of six women who form the livestock association of that small community.
Brunner, Daniel L.   +2 more
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Hotspots and Coldspots: Household and village-level variation in orphanhood prevalence in rural Malawi

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2008
We explore the spatial distribution of orphans in two areas of Malawi. We first review pertinent themes in qualitative data collected in our research sites. Then, using spatial analysis, we show how positive and negative clusters of orphans-which we term
Patrick Gerland   +2 more
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Costs of projects for orphans and other vulnerable children : case studies in Eritrea and Benin [PDF]

open access: yes
Very little information is available on the ex-post cost of delivering services to orphans, and other vulnerable children (OVC). This hinders large scale planning of interventions for OVC.
Coury, Diane   +4 more
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