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Article: AIDS orphans on increase in Uganda
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- July 12, 2002
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AIDS orphans on increase in Uganda
KAMPALA, July 12 (Xinhua) -- The number of AIDS orphans in Uganda
has increased four-fold from 177,000 in 1990 to 884,000 at the end
of 2001, a joint report by three agencies said.
The Children on the Brink 2002 report released jointly by the
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Program
on AIDS (UNAIDS) and the United States Agencies for International
Development (USAID) said Uganda no longer shoulders the highest
number of AIDS orphans.
Nigeria has taken over with 995,000 orphans, followed ...