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Figure 4: CHILDREN SURVIVING UNDER PATERNAL ORPHANS STATUS
Source: Research findings 2012
3.2.4 Children surviving under Prison, remand, detention and juvenile based
facilities
Tanzania has a substantial number of children who are surviving in Prison, remand, detention and
juvenile based Institutions, These are those children in conflict with the law. Table 4, below is
illustrative, also observe Appendix 1 for detailed information per location
Table 4: The status of children in conflict/contact with the law as per 2010
Prison (total children) 453 NB:
Pre Trial 374 Status of three children was not recorded
Post Trial 64
Babies 12
Retention Home (total children) 200
Approved School (total children) 60
Police stations (total children) 2
Babies 1
NB:
Detained children 578
1 baby and 1 child found in police detention
Babies with mothers 13
Total detained 591
Source: Research findings 2012
3.2.5 Children surviving under HIV/AIDS status
When reviewing Tanzania Estimation and Projection Projects (EPP) of HIV prevalence done prior to
2004, NACP predicted urban HIV prevalence trend curve to peak in 1992 at 12.6% and stabilize
between 2003 and 2010. In turn, the trend of HIV prevalence in rural areas to increase less rapidly
than urban prevalence from 1990 to 1995 and then stabilize at around 5% between 2005 and 2010.
A similar trend was predicted at the national level (Figure 9 and 10). As demonstrated in Figure 9
and 10, actual data shows a more optimistic picture with declines in both rural and urban sites from
2003 to 2008. However despite such decline the capacity of Tanzania economy to shoulder that
problem is non existence. That fact makes it to be a critical issue worth interventions affecting
directly child rights on care and parenting as a right to be granted to children. (Kindly see figure 5
which follows).
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