Think about the Kids

Today, like every day, 6,000 children will lose a parent to AIDS. Researchers in a report recently released by UNICEF, UNAIDS and the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief estimated that 12 million children in sub-Saharan Africa alone have lost one or both parents to AIDS. In four years, that number is expected to climb to 15.7 million. The worldwide number of orphans from all causes is now 132.7 million, says UNICEF. And of that number worldwide, 15.2 million children have lost one or both parents to AIDS. That’s one orphan for every active blog in the world. December 1 is World AIDS day. Planning to do anything?