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Forgotten Children of the AIDS Epidemic

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  • ISBN 9780300062717
  • Weight: 435g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 25 Jan 1995
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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"Mommy, why can`t the doctors make you better?"..."You won`t be there, will you? Who`ll take care of me?"—Rachel, age 5

AIDS breaks the rules of dying. It strikes the young rather than the old, decimating families and devastating communities. It will leave as its legacy a generation of orphans—traumatized by multiple losses, isolation, stigma, and grief. By the turn of the century, more than a hundred thousand children and youth in the United States—and ten million worldwide—will lose their parents to AIDS.Written by professionals in medicine, law, social work, anthropology, psychiatry, and public policy, this volume is the first full-length look at the issues facing children whose parents and siblings are dying of AIDS: what children experience, how it affects them, how we can meet their emotional needs and help them find second families, how we counter the stigmas they face. Authors explore ways to promote resilience in these AIDS-affected children. Stories of the children and their caretakers, told in their own words, are woven throughout.Pioneering and practical, the book presents an action agenda and resource directory for our nation`s policymakers as well as for parents and those who work with children in both formal and informal settings.

This book is produced in conjunction with a video, Mommy, Who`ll Take Care of Me? Forgotten Children of the AIDS Epidemic, which will be shown on PBS and is also available from Yale University Press.
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Shelley Geballe, J.D., a civil rights attorney with a speciality in child welfare and AIDS law, is in the MPH/PhD program at the Yale School of Medicine. Janice Gruendel, Ph.D., served as a senior government official in the State of Connecticut in health and child welfare and is vice president of Rabbit Ears Productions, a children`s multimedia production company. Warren Andiman, M.D., is professor of pediatrics and epidemiology at Yale University and director of the Yale-New Haven Hospital Pediatric AIDS Program.