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UNAIDS estimates that 12.5 million African children have lost a mother or both parents to AIDS. At this orphanage near Kampala, Uganda, a dozen children at a time are kept in immaculate quarters until Meeting Point, the group that runs the house, can find them a permanent home.

(Photograph by Malcolm Linton)

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)