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In 2002 in Lesotho, a boy embraces his grandmother in their home in a village on the outskirts of Maseru, the capital. He is one of three grandchildren for whom she is caring, following the death of their parents from AIDS. [JPEG]
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Five-year-old Alina holds her ballet slippers, at home in the western port city of Kaliningrad. Alina was abandoned by her father and severely neglected by her mother, a drug addict and alcoholic, who is ill with AIDS. After social services took custody of the child, her mother disappeared. [JPEG] Full story. [PDF]
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Zac [name changed], 11, peeks out from behind a post at La Maison Arc-en-Ciel (Rainbow House) in the Boutiliers neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince, the capital. “My parents died of AIDS,” Zac said. “I too have AIDS. I get my medication three times daily … but if I play too much I get tired and dizzy. Sometimes I feel like running away from here to my grandmother, but she is too poor to take care of me.” [JPEG] Full story. [PDF]

