Staggering...1,800,000 estimated in Nigeria and 1,100,000 in South Africa. How can the pharmaceuticals profit from this level of misery?
"It is a tidal wave of children who have lost one or more of their parents,” Carol Bellamy, executive director of UNICEF, the United Nations children’s agency, told Reuters.
“Fifteen million globally, close to 12 million in sub-Saharan Africa alone,” she said. “It has the possibility of destabilizing societies quite dramatically.”
Without the AIDS epidemic, which has already killed 20 million people worldwide and infected 38 million, the numbers of orphans would be falling because of better health care and nutrition. AIDS has reversed the trend."
