LAND OF A MILLION ORPHANS: DailyMail.com investigates the hidden African crisis driven by AIDS and meets 'children raised by children' left behind in Zambia
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Zambia is a land-locked nation in sub-Saharan Africa whose population of 17 million includes 1 million orphans, according to the United Nations Development Programme
AIDS killed an entire generation of parents, leaving the country with half its population younger than 18; DailyMail.com traveled there to meet children in two slums in the capital city
Hundreds of thousands of children there sleep in overcrowded one-room shacks or under plastic tarps
One in 13 Zambians will die before age 5, and many kids don't know their parents or their own birthdays
More than 1.2 million Zambians live with HIV; new cases are 29 times as common as in the United States and 53 times the United Kingdom's rate
Sexual abuse is rampant; some tribes' cultures teach that sex with a virgin can cure AIDS, driving child rape and more HIV infections
You can learn more about humanitarian crises in Zambia from UNICEF, UNAIDS, the PEPFAR program or the Family Legacy charity

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