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40,000 Indian children have lost parents to COVID. Will they end up in orphanages - or family care?

News: India

Mary Farrow
Sep 06, 2021
∙ Paid

Forty years ago, a health crisis was hitting the world, not altogether unlike the COVID-19 pandemic of today.

Credit: Shyamalamuralinath / Shutterstock.

Beginning in the early 1980s, the general public first became aware of the virus known as HIV/AIDS, which is widely believed to have originated in Africa and first transmitted to humans via chimpanzees, a…

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