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| Ebola outbreak: 'Thousands of children orphaned' | Ebola outbreak: 'Thousands of children orphaned' |
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| At least 3,700 children in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone have lost one or both parents to Ebola this year, the UN children's agency has said. | |
| Finding care for them is proving incredibly difficult because the children are stigmatised, Unicef added. | Finding care for them is proving incredibly difficult because the children are stigmatised, Unicef added. |
| Some are "being fed by neighbours but no more", the agency said. | Some are "being fed by neighbours but no more", the agency said. |
| The World Health Organization (WHO) says more than 3,000 people have died of Ebola in West Africa - the world's most deadly outbreak of the virus. | The World Health Organization (WHO) says more than 3,000 people have died of Ebola in West Africa - the world's most deadly outbreak of the virus. |
| The Unicef figure on the number of children orphaned because of Ebola follows a two-week assessment mission in the three countries worst-affected by the outbreak. | |
| It found that children as young as three or four-years-old were being orphaned by the disease. | |
| Children were discovered alone in the hospitals where their parents had died, or back in their communities where, if they were lucky, they were being fed by neighbours - but all other contact with them was being avoided. | |
| The UN children's agency says there is an urgent need to establish a system for identifying and caring for Ebola orphans. | |
| It will be holding a meeting on the issue in Sierra Leone next month but before then it wants potential carers to come forward. | |
| An earlier version of this story said that 4,900 children had lost parents but the correct figure is 3,700. | |
| Ebola virus disease (EVD) | Ebola virus disease (EVD) |
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