Complex sentence: Children sick with HIV/AIDS are ostracized by family members, communities, schools and playmates who fear contracting the disease, they are denied play, stopped from going to school, used by own parents to ascertain own sero-status.
Split into simpler sentences: Children sick with HIV/AIDS are ostracized by family members, communities, schools and playmates who fear contracting the disease. They are denied play, stopped from going to school, used by own parents to ascertain own sero-status.