PERSPECTIVES OF PARENTS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NATIONAL LIFE-SKILLS AND HIV/AIDS EDUCATION PROGRAMME IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ETHEKWINI, KWAZULU-NATAL
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https://doi.org/10.15270/45-2-213Abstract
Around the world an estimated 2.5 million children younger than 15 are living with HIV/AIDS(UNAIDS, 2007). Sub-Saharan Africa bears the brunt of the epidemic and its effect on young
people. It is home to over 70% of young people living with the virus and up to 90% of children
orphaned as a result of AIDS in the world (UNAIDS, 2007). If current infections continue and
there is no large-scale treatment, care and support provided to young people infected, then up to
60% of 15-year-olds will not reach the age of 60 (UNAIDS, 2004). In countries such as South
Africa and Zimbabwe, where a fifth of the adult population is infected, AIDS is set to claim the
lives of around half of all 15-year-olds. In Botswana, where about one in three adults are
infected, no fewer than two thirds of 15-year-old boys will die prematurely of AIDS. These
findings are contained in a United Nations Report (2004) that shows that current trends of
infection will increasingly have an impact on demographics such as rates of infant, youth and
adult mortality, life expectancy and economic growth in many developing countries.
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