Sentence examples for maternal orphans from inspiring English sources

However, this was not the case for paternal orphanhood or double orphanhood amongst maternal orphans.

In addition, across sub-Saharan Africa there are an estimated 8.9 million maternal orphans due to HIV-associated mortality [8].

In both age groups there were high death rates in those with unknown maternal education, reflecting high mortality among maternal orphans (not shown).

Paternal orphans (but not maternal orphans), however, were at greater risk of not attending school.

Paternal and maternal orphans did not experience a significantly increased risk of having started sex.

Amongst the orphans, 18.4% were maternal orphans, 58.5% were paternal orphans and 23.2% were double orphans.

Dimensions of vulnerability to HIV investigated were (1) being HIV-positive; (2) having an HIV-positive or AIDS-sick parent; (3) being a maternal, paternal orphan or double orphan; and 4) being a young carer.

9, 10 A maternal orphan is the child whose mother has died.

Of the orphaned youth, seven of them had lost both parents to HIV/AIDS, five were paternal orphans and one was a maternal orphan.

As a result of the increase in maternal orphaning, the percentage of children who are reported to have lost both parents – double orphans – has also doubled.

The data indicate that over the past 10 years the level of reported maternal orphaning has doubled (from 1.49 to 3.01% of children), while paternal orphaning has remained relatively constant.