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Role of education sector in providing care and support to OVC in Lesotho and Swaziland: A comparative case study analysis.

Role of education sector in providing care and support to OVC in Lesotho and Swaziland: A comparative case study analysis.

As the HIV epidemic continues to unfold across southern Africa, countries are still struggling to find effective means to address many of its negative impacts at individual, family and community levels. One of the most complicated challenges is how to support the growing number of orphans and other children made vulnerable, or made more vulnerable, by the direct and indirect effects of HIV on their households. In particular, there have been many individual and institutional efforts to assist these children through schools and other educational services and institutions. But there has been little research into the actual impact of most of these interventions.

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