<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-21/magazine/winter-2010/finding-homes-orphans-aids.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Finding Homes for Orphans of AIDS</title><excerpt>In South Africa, a young girl is more likely to be raped than to learn to read. Sexual assault and promiscuity feed the AIDS epidemic there, which robs 500 children of their parents each week. Beth Gillig ’03 knew these dismal facts before she arrived in South Africa for a six-week research project on AIDS orphans in 2002. But she was unprepared for her response when she met the people behind the statistics.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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