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Title: | Models of care for orphaned and separated children and upholding children’s rights: cross-sectional evidence from western Kenya |
Authors: | Ayuku David Kamanda Allan Lukoye Atwoli |
Keywords: | Orphans Vulnerable children Sub-saharan africa Kenya Street children, Children’s rights |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
Publisher: | Embleton et al. BMC International Health and Human Rights |
Abstract: | Sub-Saharan Africa is home to approximately 55 million orphaned children. The growing orphan crisishas overwhelmed many communities and has weakened the ability of extended families to meet traditionalcare-taking expectations. Other models of care and support have emerged in sub-Saharan Africa to address the growing orphan crisis, yet there is a lack of information on these models available in the literature. We applied a human rights framework using the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child to understand what extent children’s basic human rights were being upheld in institutional vs. community- or family-based care settingsin Uasin Gishu County, Kenya. |
URI: | http://ir.mu.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2203 |
Appears in Collections: | School of Medicine |
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