Understanding the strategies employed to cope with increased numbers of AIDS-orphaned children in families in rural settings: a case of Mbeya Rural District, Tanzania

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• 作者：Nelsensius Klau Fauk ; Silivano Edson Mwakinyali…
• 关键词：Adoptive families ; AIDS ; orphaned children ; Coping strategies ; HIV ; AIDS ; Mbeya Rural District ; Tanzania
• 刊名：Infectious Diseases of Poverty
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：6
• 期：1
• 全文大小：458KB
• 刊物主题：Infectious Diseases; Tropical Medicine; Public Health;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：2049-9957
• 卷排序：6

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BackgroundThe purpose of this study was to understand the strategies employed by families that adopt Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)-orphaned children (Adoptive families) for coping with and mitigating the impact of AIDS in Mbeya Rural District, Tanzania. High numbers of AIDS-orphaned children aged below 18 years in Mbeya Region have led to increasing the burden of families caring for them. Understanding the coping strategies and impact mitigation activities employed by adoptive families is important in order to develop programmes to help them.