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Children Living in a World with AIDS

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Topic: Hiv/Aids
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Sort Desciption: Children living in a world with AIDS is the theme for the next general discussion of the Committee on the Rights of the Child. The discussion will take place on 5 October 1998 during the nineteenth session of the Committee at the United Nations Office at Geneva. ...

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Children living in a world with AIDS is the theme for the next general discussion of the Committee on the Rights of the Child. The discussion will take place on 5 October 1998 during the nineteenth session of the Committee at the United Nations Office at Geneva. United Nations bodies and specialized agencies as well as non-governmental organizations and individual experts are invited to take part. The purpose of the general discussions is to foster a deeper understanding of the contents and implications of the Convention as they relate to specific topics. The discussions are public. The decision to devote a day of discussion to this topic was taken by the Committee at its seventeenth session in accordance with rule 75 of its provisional rules of procedure. Since its identification in the early 1980s, AIDS has drastically changed the world in which all children live. It is estimated that since the beginning of the epidemic close to 4 million children under 15 years old have been infected worldwide, and that nearly 3 million of them have died. The impact of HIV/AIDS in the daily lives of children is enormous as they all run the potential risk of being infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS. The history of the epidemic has shown that vulnerable persons, including children, are the most likely to be infected. Infection increases vulnerability as it exposes victims to discrimination and injustice. This vicious circle, which affects in particular the developing world, where more than 90 per cent of infected people live, has a huge impact on the future of our societies because most infected people are in their peak productive and reproductive years. The AIDS epidemic therefore threatens the social and economic development of all States, especially the most fragile ones. According to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), several countries have already fallen in the ranking of th ...

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