Their chances of receiving HIV treatment, or they are taken in by complete Occasionally, children whoĮxperience abuse run away and become street children, which seriously reduces These children end up with no real caregiver. Responsibility by sending sick children to other family members sometimes Medical care, even when the child is visibly sick. May shun and exclude them, physically abuse them, or refuse them food or Suffer neglect and abuse on the part of their caregivers. AIDS orphans are most often in the care of other relatives, but can Violence, and property rights violations, and unable to care for theirĬhildren. HIV-positive mothers are frequently victims of abuse, including stigmatization, HIV-positive mothers constitute one of the major treatment access barriers. Human rights abuses against HIV-positive children or their Yet, too many children are still not accessing treatment, Accessing these drugs is a question of life orĭeath for children. Today, this has changed in many African countries, including in Kenya, and ART is now available for free. In the past, children's access to AIDS treatment in Africa was hindered by the sheer absence of antiretroviral drugs or their enormous cost. Other parts of Eastern and Southern Africa. This report looks at obstacles to HIV treatment for children in Kenya, many of which are also relevant to understanding treatment access barriers for children in At present, adults with HIV are about twice as likely to receive ART asĬhildren. The other 40,000 are without access and will soon die if they do not get theĭrugs. One-third of them-20,000 children-are currently getting the treatment, while Some 150,000 children in Kenya are infected with HIV,Īnd 60,000 of them urgently need antiretroviral treatment (ART). Representative of many of the challenges Eastern and Southern Africa face inįighting the epidemic. Kenya has a generalized HIV/AIDS epidemic and is Therapy, more than half of the total number of people in need of treatment An estimated 5.3 million adults and children there need antiretroviral If untreated, AIDS kills 50 percent of children born withĮastern and Southern Africa have been particularly affectedĪnd have the highest number of child deaths due to HIV of any region in the Children in Africa continue to die ofĪIDS at high rates.
Vast majority of the massive efforts to roll out antiretroviral drugs hasĬoncentrated on adults, not children. Roughly two-thirds of all HIV-positive people live in sub-Saharan Africa. Return to Index of Clans/Family Histories.Nearly 90 percent of HIV-positive children worldwide and There is a Gordon clan Web site here, here and in USA as well as Virginia Gordon was the 50th most frequent surname at the General Register Office in 1995. Surnames regarded as septs (sub-branch) of the Gordon clan include Addison, Adie, Aitcheson, Aitken, Barrie, Cullen, Eadie, Edie, Geddes, Huntly, Mavor, Milne, Todd. The Gordon clan motto is "Bydand" which means "Remaining". His son, the 3rd Duke, remained loyal to the Hanoverian government in the 1745 Uprising but his brother fought for Bonnie Prince Charlie. The 2nd Duke of Gordon supported the "Old Pretender" in the first Jacobite Uprising in 1715 and fought at the Battle of Sheriffmuir on September 12, 1715. Gordons remained staunch Catholics and supporters of King Charles II in the Civil War of 1642-1648, but they refused to support the Marquis of Montrose. The 4th Earl of Huntly was an adviser to Mary of Guise when she was regent in place of the absent Mary Queen of Scots. In the power struggle between King James II and the Douglas family, the Douglases burned down Huntly Castle but were later defeated. In the 15th century, Sir Alexander Gordon was created Lord Gordon and his son the first Earl of Huntly (a name which had also originated in the Borders). The 1st Earl of Huntly is said to have rewarded anyone who adopted the name Gordon with a gift of oatmeal. The Gordons were major landowners, rather than a traditional tribal clan but became known as the "Cock o' the North". Sir Adam had been one of those who petitioned the Pope to remove the excommunication of Bruce after he murdered John Comyn in 1306. Sir Adam de Gordon was appointed to the lordship of Strathbogie and Badenoch in the North-East of the country by Robert the Bruce, in place of the Comyns, who had opposed him. The name appears in the Borders in the reigns of King Malcolm IV and King William the Lion in the 12th century. Although this is one of the great families of Northeast Scotland, the name originally came from a location in Berwickshire (probably 'gor-dun' meaning hill fort).
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