Aids has already orphaned more than 11 million children across Africa, and the worst is yet to come as more parents succumb to the epidemic, Unicef said in a report on Wednesday. The report called for ...

Imagine: It’s almost five o’clock in the morning; the sun hasn’t risen over the horizon yet. You get up, crawl out of your potato sack and fetch water from the river. You bathe, dress and have a cup ...

One night in 2003, Agnes Dlamini woke to the sound of her infant grandson crying. His mother — Dlamini’s daughter-in-law — had died after a long illness. The baby was left on top of her emaciated body ...

CHANGING THE LIVES OF ORPHANS HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD. WE FIRST SHARE THE STORY OF THE HIGGINS FAMILY. TEN YEARS AGO, THEY ADOPTED TWO BOYS FROM RWANDA. A DECADE LATER, THEIR FAMILY AND MISSION ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — By 2010, the United Nations expects 20 million children in sub-Saharan Africa to be so-called AIDS orphans, their parents having succumbed to the deadly disease. The AIDS pandemic has ...

Editor's note: Robyn Rosenthal is traveling to Africa to volunteer her time at an orphanage. She will file weekly reports that will be published in the Kalamazoo Gazette on the next two Sundays. She ...

But take another look. Uganda, a country in East Africa, is a land besieged by devastating war, extreme poverty and the AIDS pandemic. Among what is left once the dust settles is a disturbing ...

South Africa's University of the Witswatersrand launches a project to reduce the number of children orphaned by AIDS. The goals are to increase the survival rate of HIV-infected mothers and to inhibit ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Monday night, a Siouxland-based non-profit held its annual event, all in an effort to help orphans thousands of miles away. That Sing for Africa event brought local choirs and ...

Some 9 million children in Africa have lost a mother to AIDS, British charity Save the Children said Monday, calling on donors to sharply increase aid to meet their needs. “Incredibly, the impact of ...