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'Army of orphans': The price of S. Africa's AIDS scourge
According to UNAIDS, there were 960,000 AIDS orphans in South Africa, compared to 1.9 million in 2009.
A health counselor (R) talks to a student about HIV and AIDS prevention on March 8, 2011 in a mobile clinic at Madwaleni high school near Mtubatuba in Kwazulu Natal, South Africa. (AFP)
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalist @NewVision
At the age of 13, Ndumiso Gamede was orphaned when his parents died at the peak of the AIDS epidemic in South Africa.
He was left to raise his two young