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Human Rights Group Accuses Kenyan Government of Neglecting AIDS Orphans

June 25, 2001

In a report titled "In the Shadow of Death: HIV/AIDS and Children's Rights in Kenya," New York-based Human Rights Watch accused the Kenyan government of not doing enough to reduce the social stigma attached to HIV/AIDS, and of doing little to protect the human rights of children orphaned by the epidemic. The report said the disease has orphaned about a million Kenyan children and at least 13 million in Africa.


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Associated Press
06.25.01; Andrew England

  
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