Grandparents Functional Capacity in Mitigating Challenges Experienced by Children Orphaned by HIV And AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa - Research

This paper articulates for the purpose of an explicit analysis and discussion the physical, cognitive, affective and social performance based on the functional capacity of grandparents in mitigating the challenges experienced by children orphaned by HIV and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. The exposition was positioned against the background of the well acclaimed decline in HIV and AIDS figures attributable to the global scale-up of antiretroviral therapy. The analysis reveals that despite the gains being pandied in the literature, grandparents have continued to perform actively in mitigating the challenges faced by children orphaned by the epidemic. Based on this revelation, the paper concludes by making some major suggestions for consideration in implementing public and private social development policies and practices that should leverage the often ignored stress that grandparents encounter in the subcontinent.