Orphans in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Crisis, the Interventions, and the Anthropologist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3751379 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Drah, Drah Drah (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 3 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Africa Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9887 • E-ISSN: 1527-1978 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/africatoday.59.2.3 |
| OpenAlex | W3151950432 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 73 |
Development economics · Economics · Political science · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Sociology · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology
Childcare in Contemporary Africa
Applying Community-Based Participatory Research to Better Understand and Improve Kinship Care Practices
Implementation of Adoption in South Africa
From kinship networks to culture of relatedness
Orphanhood Prevalence, Living Arrangements and Orphanhood Reporting in Lesotho, Malawi and Zimbabwe
Living, dying, after death
Older Women’, Customary Obligations and Orphan Foster Caregiving
Anticipatory child fostering and household economic security in Malawi
Take my Child and May She Love You
Psychological well‐being of orphans in Dar El Salaam, Tanzania
Taking care of my own blood''
Social Networks, Migration, and Care in Tanzania
Psychological distress amongst Aids‐orphaned children in urban South Africa
Maternal and child undernutrition
‘We are managing our own lives . . . ’
Gender Roles and Informal Care for Patients With Aids
Guardianship of orphans and vulnerable children. A survey of current and prospective South African caregivers
Supporting children in need through a community-based orphan visiting programme
The extent of community and public support available to families caring for orphans in Malawi
The impact of HIV/Aids on the family and other significant relationships
Africa's orphan crisis
Growing up in an era of Aids
Children as caregivers of older relatives living with HIV and Aids in Nyang'oma division of western Kenya
Barriers and incentives to orphan care in a time of Aids and economic crisis
Towards a Definition of Orphaned and Vulnerable Children
Theorising other , ‘other childhoods’
Competing 'Images' of Childhood in the Social and Legal Systems of Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa
Foster fathers
The role of men in families
Gendered childhoods
Aids-Induced Orphanhood as a Systemic Shock
Care and Nutrition
Expanding the care continuum for HIV/Aids
Resource needs to support orphans and vulnerable children in sub-Saharan Africa
Beyond the numbers
Grandmothers’ Productivity and the HIV/Aids Pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa
Introduction to the Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, Special Issue on Aging and Social Change in Africa
Aids and the elderly Tswana
Orphan Care in Botswana’s Working Households
Hidden Child Workers
African American grandmothers parenting Aids orphans
Aids-affected children, family collectives and the social dynamics of care in Ethiopia
Dimensions of the emerging orphan crisis in sub-Saharan Africa
Child fostering and children's nutritional outcomes in rural mali
Extended family's and women's roles in safeguarding orphans' education in Aids-afflicted rural Zimbabwe
Emerging health disparities in Botswana
When the obvious brother is not there
Children, Aids and the politics of orphan care in Ethiopia
The effect of child fostering on feeding practices and access to health services in rural Sierra Leone
Child Fosterage in West Africa
Krobo Queen Mothers
Diet and Delocalization
A Child has Many Mothers
Choosing to Move
The Varying Vulnerability of African Orphans
Spinning the Epidemic
Women in Accra
No Success Without Struggle
The Effect of Social Change on Concepts of the Good Child and Good Mothering
Reconfiguring old age
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2024 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |