| In 2007 UNICEF estimated that there are close to 2,600,000 orphans living in Tanzania. Although there are no comprehensive statistics for the exact number of HIV orphans, it is beyond doubt that HIV prevalence among the Maasai is increasingly becoming a major threat to their nomadic lifestyle. Every year the Maasai pastoral community get accustomed to occasional death resulting from their illiteracy about this killer disease (AIDS) and as a result when they pass... | Mwaka 2007 UNICEF inakadiriwa kuwa kuna karibu 2,600,000 yatima wanaoishi katika Tanzania. Ingawa hakuna takwimu kamili ya idadi halisi ya watoto yatima VVU, ni zaidi ya shaka kwamba maambukizi ya VVU miongoni mwa Wamasai inazidi kuwa tishio kubwa kwa maisha yao ya kuhamahama. Kila mwaka jumuiya ya Wamasai wafugaji kupata desturi ya kifo mara kwa mara kutokana na ujinga wao kuhusu ugonjwa huu muuaji (UKIMWI) na matokeo yake wakati wao kupita wao kuondoka nyuma ya... | Hariri |