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Acknowledgements

This report was researched by Jonathan Cohen, researcher with the HIV/AIDS and Human Rights Program of Human Rights Watch and Helen Epstein, consultant to Human Rights Watch, with additional research conducted by Tony Tate, researcher with the Children’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch.  It was written by Jonathan Cohen with Helen Epstein and edited by Joseph Amon, director of the HIV/AIDS and Human Rights Program; Tony Tate, Africa researcher with the Children’s Rights Division; Janet Walsh, acting executive director of the Women’s Rights Division; Georgette Gagnon, deputy director of the Africa Division; Wilder Tayler, legal and policy director; and Iain Levine, program director of Human Rights Watch.  Jennifer Nagle, Manu Krishnan, Andrea Holley, and Fitzroy Hepkins provided production assistance.  The researchers are grateful to Kevin Fisher for providing valuable research assistance and to Joanne Csete for reviewing a draft of the report and providing helpful comments throughout the research. 

Human Rights Watch wishes to recognize a number of nongovernmental organizations and schools for facilitating our field research in Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda.  We extend particular thanks to Sizanani Home-Based Care, Masibambisane Children’s Center, Pretoria Child and Family Welfare Services, Emdeni Children’s Home, Thusanang Primary School, Vezokuhle Primary School, and Emadwaleni Secondary School in South Africa; Women Fighting AIDS in Kenya (WOFAK), Grassroots Organizations Operating Together in Sisterhood (GROOTS), Nyumbani Children’s Home, Kenya Network of Women with AIDS (KENWA), and the African Network for the Prevention and Protection Against Child Abuse and Neglect (ANPPCAN) in Kenya; and Save the Children, The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) Mulago and Mbale branches, ActionAid, SOS Children’s Villages, and Bakhita Vocational Training Center (Mbale) in Uganda.

We are especially grateful to the children who agreed to be interviewed for this report, all of them without any compensation.