A generation at risk?
Subtitle: HIV/AIDS, vulnerable chidren, and security in Southern Africa
By: edited by Robyn Pharoah.
Contributors: Pharoah, Robyn.; Institute for Security Studies (South Africa)
Series: ISS monograph series ;; no. 109
Publisher: Institute for Security Studies
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Pretoria, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 122
Subjects: AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- Africa, Southern.; Abandoned children -- Africa, Southern.; Children of AIDS patients -- Africa, Southern.; Children and violence -- Africa, Southern.; Orphans -- Africa, Southern.; Internal security -- Africa, Southern.; Africa, Southern -- Social conditions.
Description: The problem of children left orphaned and vulnerable by HIV/AIDS is receiving increasing attention worldwide. Yet, even as the global community acknowledges the human tragedy that orphaning on the scale heralded by the HIV/AIDS epidemic represents, it is widely speculated that large numbers of orphans may themselves represent a security challenge. By reducing the resources available to children and destabilising the institutions on which they depend - such as the family, school and community - it is argued that HIV/AIDS may severely affect children's development, creating generations of disenfranchised and potentially dysfunctional young people left with little alternative but engage in criminal and other threatening activities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and summary.