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Young girls living at the Cabrini Hostel for AIDS orphans bath before bedtime. The Swaziland hostel takes care of 120 children who have lost their parents to the virus.

Some AIDS orphans in Swaziland are provided one meal a day, except on Sunday, in a community- feeding program. An orphaned boy clutches his food as others begin to eat.

Severely dehydrated and suffering from signs of AIDS, baby Phiwokuhle is held in place by her mother as A nurse tries to find a vein at Mankayane Hospital in Swaziland. Although she cries, there is not enough fluid in her body to produce tears. She…

Stthesihle Malama, 14, left, helps lower the body of his mother into her grave. Five years ago her husband also died of AIDS and they left behind four children. She refused to get tested and take the medicine she needed.

Dumsile Ndlangamandla, age 12, at right, watches as her mother Busisiwe Malama, 29, is buried in a public graveyard in Mbabane, Swaziland. Her mother died of AIDS after her father also died from AIDS in 2001. Together they left behind four children.…

Family and friends of Jabu Xaba carry her to her resting place at the family burial grounds in central Swaziland. Jabu died of AIDS.

The family of Jabu Xaba, who died of AIDS, retrieves her body from the morgue before the burial. Jabu left behind two children, including a newborn who also has HIV.

Thoko Xaba holds her granddaughter while grieving for her daughter Jabu Xaba who died of AIDs. Before her death, Jabu had given birth to a baby girl Siphephile, who shows signs of the virus and has little chance of survival.

Swaziland has the world’s highest know rates of HIV infection and AIDS. Approximately 70,000 children younger than age 17 have lost one or both parents to the virus. Funerals have replaced weddings as the main family ceremony. People struggle to…

Sudanese rebel soldier Mohammed Ali, age 18, walks to his post in the eastern desert of Chad, where he and some 1,000 Sudanese men are camped out waiting for their next battle.