This paper reviews published studies on orphans and describes indicators by which
weakened or saturated extended family safety nets can be identified. Most orphans in Africa …

Background The number of persons with disability worldwide is estimated at more than one
billion, and low-and middle-income countries (LMIC's) have particularly high prevalence …

Background Families and friends who give care to people with mental disorders (MDs) are
affected in a variety of ways and degrees. The interplay of caregiving consequences …

An estimated 4 million children, or about 10% of the entire South African population, will be
orphaned by the year 2015. There is growing consensus that the extended family system is …

Institutions are not necessarily good environments for children. In the face of challenges
such as HIV, Ebola, poverty, conflict and disaster the numbers have grown rather than …

Abstract The General Population Cohort (GPC) was set up in 1989 to examine trends in HIV
prevalence and incidence, and their determinants in rural south-western Uganda. Recently …

This review explores the specific issues that cluster around the provision of 'care'in the
context of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. We argue that the economic concept of the 'care …

The world's total number of older people (defined as 60 years of age and over) is expected
almost to double within the next 25 years–from 606 million in 2000 to over 1.2 billion by the …

This paper agrees that universal models of childhood must be unpacked in order to reveal
the diversity of 'other childhoods' in the global south, but argues that local, culturally specific …

How households and families respond to AIDS is of fundamental importance when it comes
to designing programmes and interventions to provide support and care to people living with …