TOPSHOT-NAMIBIA-AIDS ORPHAN

TOPSHOT - A five-year-old Namibian Aids orphan pictured in the small town of Uutapi, in northwest Namibia 26 November 2002 at a day centre that looks after orphaned children who are living with extended familes. Namibia, which has a population of just 1.8 million, has an adult HIV-prevalence rate of 22.5 percent. Health officials from 22 countries in eastern and southern Africa are meeting in Windhoek from Monday to consider the plight of the more than 11 million children orphaned by AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. Worldwide, more than 13 million children under the age of 15 have lost one or both parents to AIDS. A massive 90 percent of them are concentrated in Africa south of the Sahara desert, where their misery is compounded by widespread lack of food. The total number of AIDS orphans is expected to hit 25 million by 2015, according to the United Nations children's agency UNICEF. (Photo by ALEXANDER JOE / AFP) (Photo by ALEXANDER JOE/AFP via Getty Images)