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         Executive:
                                 King, Prime Minister, Cabinet

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         Legislative:
                                Senate and House of 
                                                                
           

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         Judicial:
                                    High Court, Appeal Court Assembly – By King
                                              
           

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         Legal System:
              
            Roman Dutch

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         Languages:
                               English and siSwati

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HIV/AIDS 
                 

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         Population Infected:
                  42%

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         Number of Orphans:
                 60,000

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         Orphaned by 2010:
                  120,000

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         Up to 56 % of Pregnant women in late 20’s are HIV positive

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         By 2010, 1 in 6 children will be a child under 15 who has lost both parents to HIV/Aids

• 66% of Sawzis live below the poverty line
•  Approximately 10% of Swazi households are headed by children. Many more are headed by grandmothers caring for orphan grandchildren
•  Some 25% of children can not attend school; however, Swaziland does have one of the highest literacy rates in Africa
•  Nearly half of the population is under 15, and roughly 35,000 children have lost parents due to HIV/AIDS. With the loss of so many adults, family income and food production have fallen dramatically.
• More than 80% of the people survive through subsistence agriculture. Thus the combination of severe weather, drought, and the loss of healthy farm workers due to HIV/AIDS is crippling the chances of survival for families and children in particular.