Zimbabwe

Demographic Data:

  • Total Population: 15,245,855
  • Population under 15: 41.6%
  • Life Expectancy at Birth: 57.5 years
  • Human Development Index: 155 out of 188 
  • World Bank Status: Low Income
  • HIV/AIDS Prevalence (age 15-49): 16.7%
  • Mean Household Composition: 4.1 persons
  • Female-Headed Households: 44.6%

Sources: World Bank, UNDP, DHS 2010-11

 

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Juvenile Law Center,

To understand what states are doing, the U.S. Juvenile Law Center created the National Extended Foster Care Review.

Shelene G. Gentz, Isabel Calonge-Romano, Rosario Martínez-Arias, Chengbo Zeng & Mónica Ruiz-Casares - AIDS Care,

This study examines the mental health of adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV) in Namibia, and the factors that contribute to mental health problems.

Zahirah McNatt & Neil Boothby - UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the Columbia Global Centers | Amman,

This study outlines several ways in which family separation negatively impacts Syrian refugees in Jordan.

ASPIRES Family Care,

This report compiles presentations and notes from the Accelerating Strategies for Practical Innovation & Research in Economic Strengthening (ASPIRES) Family Care Uganda Learning Event, Economic Strengthening and Keeping Children in Family Care, held May 29-30, 2018.

Friederike Lorenz & Meike Wittfeld - Proceedings of the Conference Child Maltreatment & Well-Being: Contemporary issues, research and practice,

This paper aims to discuss professional’s struggle to find words to talk about perceptions of violence by their colleagues in residential care.

Tricia N. Stephens - Child & Family Social Work,

Qualitative data from a mixed‐methods study were used to explore the phenomenon of complex trauma in 20 urban‐dwelling mothers using a combined interpretive phenomenological and directed content analysis.

Sarah Lee - BBC News,

The number of people who have gone missing from residential care in London, UK rose 34% from 2013 to 2017, according to this article from BBC News.

Jerry Floresa, Janelle Hawes, Angela Westbrooks, Chanae Henderson - Children and Youth Services Review,

This paper discusses the struggles of young women who are “crossover youth.” Crossover youth are children who are simultaneously involved in the foster care and juvenile justice systems.

Josh Fergeus, Cathy Humphreys, Carol Harvey, Helen Herrman - Child & Family Social Work,

This paper draws on the perspectives of foster and kinship carers, describing the disconnection between their role as mental health advocates and their interest in early intervention in a field which is dominated by crisis and the historic marginalisation of foster and kinship carers.

Collins Olayinka - AllAfrica,

According to this article from AllAfrica, Nigeria's National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons has expressed great concern over "the illegal sale of children in the country" from unregistered orphanage homes.