Shortly after Nicolar Ceauscu was overthrown on December 22, 1989, the world was exposed for the first time to the shocking images of Romania's orphans, especially its children with disabilities and babies with AIDS. These children, numbering over 100,000, live for the most part in institutions - bleak, understaffed orphanages built by the Ceausescu government to deal with the consequences of its policy of coercively raising the birth rate.
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