The dominant global perception that sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing an “AIDS orphan
crisis”, coupled with growing trends in international voluntourism, has fostered a potentially …

Sustainable Development Goal target 8.7 aims to eradicate child labour in all its forms by
2025. Ten years before this deadline, the objective is far from being achieved since in 2016 …

The health and demography of the South African population has been undergoing
substantial changes as a result of the rapidly progressing HIV epidemic. Researchers at the …

Mainstream research and the popular media often equate female-headship with household
vulnerability, crisis, and disorganization. Epidemic levels of HIV/AIDS in some parts of sub …

Gender is increasingly recognised as fundamental to understanding migration processes,
causes, and consequences. In South Africa, it is intrinsic to the social transformations fueling …

This chapter gives an overview of children's living arrangements in South Africa, drawing
mainly on household surveys. It draws attention to the diversity of family forms and living …

Background Studies of the consequences of orphanhood usually focus on measuring its
impact on education outcomes. The findings of these studies are mixed. Several studies use …

Increasing adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa raises considerable
concern about the welfare of surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability …

There are compelling reasons to believe that orphans–many millions due to the AIDS
epidemic–are more likely to be sexually victimized during childhood. Few studies have …

Research on the relationship between migration and HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa
often suggests that migrants are at higher risk of HIV infection because they are more likely …