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Orphan Status, HIV Risk Behavior, and Mental Health Among Adolescents in Rural Kenya

Objective: To examine orphan status, mental health, social support, and HIV risk among adolescents in rural Kenya. Methods: Randomly selected adolescents aged 10–18…

Effectiveness of Specific Interventions on Emotional Status among Orphan Children in Selected Orphanages, Salem

A true experimental-study was conducted using pre test and post test with experimental and control group design by Nesakkarangal orphanage selected as experimental…

Orphan Status, HIV Risk Behavior, and Mental Health Among Adolescents in Rural Kenya

Objective To examine orphan status, mental health, social support, and HIV risk among adolescents in rural Kenya. Methods Randomly selected adolescents aged 10–18…

Kenya Research Situation Analysis on Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children Country Brief

Addressing the needs of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) and mitigating negative outcomes of the growing OVC population worldwide is a high priority for national…

Orphans as a window on the AIDS epidemic in sub-saharan Africa: Initial results and implications of a study in Uganda

Provisional estimates from a Save the Children Fund enumeration study in four Ugandan districts indicate that the total number of orphans (one or both parents missing)…