Africa's Orphaned and Vulnerable Generations: Children Affected by AIDS

Author: UNICEF 
No. of pages: 42
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: UNICEF, UNAIDS and PEPFAR
Languages: English (French forthcoming)
ISBN: ISBN-13:978-92-806-4035-9; ISBN-10:92-806-4035-6 

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Africa's Orphaned and Vulnerable Generations: Children affected by AIDS shows how the AIDS epidemic continues to affect children disproportionately and in many harmful ways, making them more vulnerable than other children, leaving many of them orphaned, and threatening their survival. Released by UNICEF, UNAIDS and PEPFAR (The US President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief), the report contains new and improved research on orphans and vulnerable children, including what governments, NGOs, the private sector and the international community can do to better respond.

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Youth Poverty and Transition to Adulthood in Europe

Arnstein Aassve Maria Iacovou Letizia Mencarini

VOLUME 15 - ARTICLE 2 PAGES 21 - 50 Date Received:   16 Nov 2005 Date Published:   27 Jul 2006

http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol15/2/ Bookmark this page Send this article to a friend     Click the icon to view and/or download the PDF file. Once you are in the PDF file, use your browser back button to return to this page. Abstract There is an increasing amount of research focussing on the transition to adulthood, a stage of the life cycle where young people face demanding life decisions, including completion of education, finding stable employment, and establishing their household and family. Whereas there is a well-developed literature on poverty among households in general, very little research has focused on poverty among young adults. Using the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) we provide a detailed description of youth poverty in Europe. Across the European Union youth poverty varies greatly, being higher in Southern European countries, as well as in the ‘liberal’ regimes of the UK and Ireland. However, there are also large variations in the extent of youth poverty within countries, between what we might term "younger youth" (aged 16-19) and "older youth" aged (25-29). In the UK, poverty rates among "younger youth" are much higher than among "older youth", suggesting that poverty among young people is closely associated with child poverty. In the Scandinavian countries, poverty peaks dramatically in the early twenties, indicating that in these countries, poverty is associated with leaving home.