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AIDS Orphan UK Trust will provide an outreach service supporting 450 orphaned and vulnerable children (OVCs) (3-18 years) each year within the Kibera slums district of Nairobi.. The service will provide proper care, support, treatment, nutritional/health education for orphaned children
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Situation
In Kenya it is estimated that 2.5 million children have been orphaned by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, with 180,000 living with the disease. Kibera is the largest slum in Kenya and sub-Saharan Africa, with an estimated population of one million, of which 18% are HIV+. Women in Kibera contract HIV at a rate 5 times higher their male counterparts, hence the prevalence between women to men is 2:1 in the area. Kibera’s population survives on less than one dollar a day, making life hard for the orphans.
Solution
The service will reduce the rate and transmission of infections (particularly mother to baby), provide antiretroviral drugs and offer education. The service will work directly in the community identifying children, young people and mothers infected or aff