A ministry is caring for Swazi Aids orphans in the abandoned mining town of Bulembu in northern Swaziland, despite health warnings.

Cataract operations have been transforming the lives of the elderly who look after children, usually orphaned by HIV/Aids.

Experts are linking the high suicide rate among school pupils in South Africa to the increasing number of orphaned children.

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A former journalist and human rights activist is giving some of Kenya’s abandoned girls a second chance at childhood, writes Judy Bryant.

More than 15-million children in sub-Saharan Africa will have lost one or both parents to Aids by 2010.

One Ethiopian child in 10 is an orphan, according to a report by the United Nations, the government and the Save the Children NGO.

School fees are preventing vast numbers of Aids orphans from getting an education and improving their future prospects, a UN official said.

Jaspreet Kindra The Black Economic Empowerment Commission’s final report, which was released last weekend, is intent on uplifting the majority of South Africans rather than…