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The daily death rate due to AIDS in Kenya vividly illuminates the catastrophe we are facing. It is currently about 700 people per day, from a population of about 30 million people.
About 2,000 people are getting infected daily. But, and to repeat again and again, the most critical point is that 70 to 80 percent of those dying are aged between 15 to 49 years the group which is most economically productive.
The loss of productive capacity of these young people has caused great and absolutely unaffordable economic loss to the country. It is reliably estimated at over Ł1.5 million per day.
200,000 of the 2.2 million people infected with AIDS at the moment in Kenya are children below (5) years old. AIDS makes poverty worse and AIDS makes it impossible to escape poverty.

70 to 80 percent of those dying from AIDS are aged between 15 to 49 years the group which is most economically productive.

Children affected by AIDS:
1. Children orphaned by AIDS
2. Children infected by HIV/live with AIDS
3. Children whose parents are still alive but are living with AIDS
4. Children of fostering families
why do these children pose a special challenge?
These children are in a unique category due to the nature of the disease:
They are psychologically traumatized when they see their parents succumbing to a incurable disease.
They sometimes face discrimination, stigmatisation and sometimes denied education because their status is unclear to the guardians and the schools.
The extended family system is over stretched and many are in care of elderly grand parents
Many instances their property from their dead parents are grabbed by relatives.
Some stay alone in child headed homes and many end up as street children, destitute or prostitutes
Some were born infected and have serious health problems.
Worse off, they enter into a vicious cycle because when they go to earn a living as house boys and house girls they face rape, defilement and an increased risk to HIV infection.