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KAIS 2007 included questions about care and support that was given to households withOVCs. The study gathered information on whether orphans were supported with any freeexternal support (other than from family and friends) for medical needs, such as medicalcare, supplies or medicine; emotional or psychosocial needs such as companionship, orspiritual support; material needs, such as clothing, food or financial support; social orpractical needs, such as assistance with housework or legal services; or for schooling needsin the case of OVCs aged 5 years and older.Among all OVCs, 21.4% lived in households that received at least one type of free, externalsupport to help care for the OVCs. The majority of OVCs and their households, 78.6%, hadnot received any type of support. Very few no households (0.03%) had received all types ofsupport. OVCs were more likely to receive emotional support (12.1%) or school support(12.2%) as compared to medical support (4.6%) or practical support (3.3%). Levels of supportwere similar across age groups and sex, but differed significantly by residence and byprovince. A significantly higher percent of OVCs in rural areas lived in households thatreceived emotional support (13.2%) and social or practical support (3.9%) compared to OVCsin urban areas (5.0% and 0.92%, respectively). Compared to other provinces, Centralprovince (36.9%) had the highest percent of OVCs living in households that received any ofthe five types of support (four types among 0‐4 year olds) and Coast province had the lowestpercent (12.4%). In Central province more than one‐third of OVCs (36.0%) age 5 years orolder received school support. In North Eastern province, levels of medical support (20.7%),material support (21.3%) and school support (24.3%) for OVCs were notably high though thenumber of observations was too small to draw conclusions for this province.14.10 CARE AND SUPPORT FOR CHRONICALLY ILL ADULTSIn this section, we present findings from the 2007 KAIS on care and support for chronically illadults, defined as adults aged 18‐64 years who were very ill for three or more months during the12 months preceding the survey. For purposes of the survey, very ill was defined as being toosick to work or do normal activities. Table 14.10 shows the percentage of women and men whowere chronically ill whose households received free, external support to help caring for thesehouseholds members within the 12 months preceding the survey. Four types of support werecaptured by the survey: medical support, such as medical care, supplies or medicine;emotional or psychosocial support such as companionship, or spiritual counseling; materialsupport, such as clothing, food or financial support; and social or practical support, such asassistance with housework, caregiver training or legal services.It should be noted that although the intent of this module within the household questionnairewas to obtain data on the extent of care and support provided to those sick with HIV‐ and AIDSrelatedillness, data from the survey indicate that only 21.4% of adults who were reported tohave been very ill for at least three months out of the 12 months preceding the survey were HIVinfectedaccording to KAIS testing results.KAIS 2007 264