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Asia Tops in Number of AIDS Orphans
Nov 19 2005, Bhawana Negi

Large population of Asia is the biggest reason behind the large number of orphans. In 2001, an estimated 65 million children were declared as orphans, of which 2 million were AIDS orphan.

Though African countries are the most severely AIDS affected...

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