DAKAR (Reuters) - More than 18 million children in Africa will be orphaned by AIDS by the end of the decade if more is not done to combat the pandemic among the continent's overwhelmingly young population, the United Nations said.
Millions of children already orphaned or infected by the disease were being overlooked as governments and donors drew up strategies to fight HIV/AIDS. This oversight was hobbling the development of some of the world's poorest countries, it said.
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