Mortality, population growth and orphanhood

But social orphanhood is a more important problem.

To improve the care of children and reduce early orphanhood.

One of the main consequences of orphanhood is limited access to education.

Displacement, abandonment, neglect, orphanhood and destitution have made children, especially those living on the streets, particularly vulnerable to recruitment.

Last year, we established a programme for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission. That programme also provides for free treatment of both parents, thereby preventing early orphanhood.

Evidence discussed at the Global Partners Forum showed that AIDS is not the only, or even the primary, cause of orphanhood or of vulnerability.

Furthermore, displacement, abandonment and neglect, orphanhood and destitution have made many children, especially those living and working on the streets, particularly vulnerable to recruitment.

(e) The children detained by the rebel movement were forced into orphanhood, the psychological and social effects of which they continue to suffer to this day.

Under article 46, paragraph 1: “The State shall provide for every citizen and his family in the event of accident, sickness, disability or orphanhood and in old age”.