TI   "Hope for Children of AIDS"
 AU   Adams, Emily
 SO   Los Angeles Times--Washington Edition (12/29/93) P. B10
 AB   Tanya Shaw, a single mother with AIDS, dedicated her final months  to
      starting a service agency that would cater to others like herself.  A
      small group of women responded to her call and helped her find an
      adoptive family for her two daughters.  Upon Shaw's death last
      February, the women created Tanya's Children, a nonprofit
      organization, to continue her mission.  Volunteers at the agency,
      which is located in South-Central Los Angeles, arrange child-care for
      ailing mothers.  "The first thing we offer women is a reprieve from
      their children," says Sandy Scott, executive director of Tanya's
      Children.  "That's what they need the most, for the days when child
      care is just too exhausting." The agency also provides legal aid and
      counseling, and leads mothers through the maze of government and
      private foundations that offer money, meals, and other support.  In
      addition, Tanya's Children works as a referral service, screening
      prospective families to adopt the children of clients who will
      eventually die from AIDS.  The organization has already arranged the
      adoptions of three children, and has seven more active clients.  But
      as AIDS now ranks as the Number 4 killer ofwomen aged 25 to 44,
      Scott and others at Tanya's Children expect many more mothers to seek
      their services.

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      information is provided by the Centers for Disease Control &
      Prevention (CDC), National AIDS Clearinghouse as a public service. 
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