Report of the Regional WorkshoponHIV and AIDS and Children’s Property Rights andLivelihoods in Southern and East Africa
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The impact of HIV on children in the region is now alarming. According to UNAIDS, an estimated 3.2 million children were infected with HIV during 2005 in Sub-Saharan Africa. During the same period, 2.4 million children died of AIDS. The increase in AIDS related deaths have increased opportunities for property stripping. As children are orphaned, some traditional practices of inheritance are becoming a source of grief and hardship. Property stripping is breaking up homes and leaving chi ldren destitute. Preventing the loss of children’s inheritance is now very urgent.