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The following text refers to questions 27 and 28
WHICH KIND OF LIFESTYLE
IS MOST AT RISK FROM HIV/AIDS?
Just Being a Child Like Emily*
Imagine a world where children are safe from
HIV/AIDS…
The impact of HIV/AIDS on children is overwhelming.
Girls like Emily are at extreme risk, due to sexual
abuse and exploitation, and also through a lack of knowledge
about safe practices.
Most disturbing is the emerging trend of younger
girls being raped by men who are HIV positive. Virgins
are being mythologised as a “cure” for HIV/AIDS.
In just one World Vision centre with 200 girls, 58%
had sexually transmitted diseases and 18% were HIV
positive. The average age of these girls was 14 years, 2
months.
World Vision is working to keep children safe with
experience gained from over 2000 projects that assist
children around the world.
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*Emily is a pseudonym to protect the child’s identity
Join a World Vision for Children
World Vision is a Christian relief and development
partnership which assists more than 75 million people
in over 90 countries, working to restore hope and to
bring justice.
Through child sponsorship. Through relief and
development, working with communities to build food
security and to fight poverty.
By actively building awareness of children’s rights,
seeking justice and fighting for the protection of children.
Through support for the United Nations
Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Find out ways you can help at www.wvi.org
WORLD VISION 6 Chemin de la Tourelle 1209 Geneva
Switzerland
Telephone (4122) 798 4183 Facsimile (4122) 798 6547
A CHRISTIAN RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT PART-
NERSHIP REACHING OUT TO A HURTING WORLD
Dean R. Hirsch, International President
OBJETIVO
Adapted from Newsweek
MACKENZIE - (1º Dia) Junho/2006