ABSTRACT The Research shall be carried out on the effects of HIV AIDS on child growth and development. The research aims at coming up with the effects and solving the problems so as to enable the children to be able to live like any other children in the society. The research also aims at solving the problems and taking care of such effects like low self esteem, school drop out and health problems. The study will benefit the researcher, the parents of effected children in Busia County and other potential investors. The study may be limited by briefness, confidentiality and co-operative respondents. The descriptive research design will be adopted in study for clarity. The study shall take a target population of 4000 respondents and shall make use of census method to sample the population whereby the entire child in the county will be involved since the target population is small. Qualitative and quantitative technique will be applicable, where quantitative technique shall analyze the data by use of table and figures while qualitative shall analyze data by use of words. Questionnaires shall be used as research instrument. CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION This chapter contains the background of study, statement of the problem indicating what contributes to the study to be carried out. There is also an objective of the study and the beneficiaries of the study. The chapter also gives out limitation that may be experienced during data collection and finally it gives the scope of the study. 1.1 Background to the Problem Kenya's AIDS (Acquired Immune-Deficiency Syndrome) epidemic is one of the worst in the world, not showing evidence of a decline. Fortunately, there is several treatment programs are starting and expanding, which results in a change in the disease progress from deadly to chronic. The effects of the virus do not only spread among the reproductive population but gradually affects even the children, especially when the infected person had an offspring (Gelder & Kraakman, 2008). There is growing research and program me literature on the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on children. Relatively, these impacts occur in a number of overlapping and interdependent domains, including children's psychosocial development. Apparently, the listed effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on children are likely to vary considerably by age. And within the children's developmental stage, the effects are considered to be on growth and health, education, work, psychosocial and vulnerability effects. However, none of the effects cited have been shown to be specific to children affected by HIV/AIDS. Therefore, it seems impossible to assess the children and be subject to as a HIV carrier in their early age. On the other hand, the other development influences are the issues of poverty and social disorganization, parental preoccupation, depression and social isolation (Richter, 2006). As a consequence, per capita income decreases and communities can less afford to raise and educate children as they did before the outbreak of the disease. The underlying theoretical model, in which it is assumed that parents raise and educate children for both financial and altruistic reasons, is calibrated using data for the period 1920 to 2000. The long-run effects of the disease, which depend heavily on parents' expectations about future mortality rates, are estimated for the years 2000-2040. Both human capital and per capita income grow significantly more slowly after the outbreak of the epidemic, while the incidence of child labor doubles for some periods. The level of fertility falls in the immediate aftermath of the outbreak, but can be significantly higher when the epidemic has reached a mature phase, depending on parents' expectations. Governmental interventions in the health sector in the early phase of the epidemic can strongly mitigate its adverse effects. 1.2 Statement of the problem The HIV/AIDS epidemic is going to be more terrible to live through than any of us can imagine. We are only beginning to experience the effects of AIDS deaths. The most important interventions for children are nationally oriented responses that identify, target and effectively implement mechanisms to provide economic and other assistance to poor families and to maintain and improve their access to services. In this way, the values and organizing coherence of families, neighborhoods and schools will assist children to cope with the increasing adversity accompanying the epidemic. In 2001, according to statistics, 20,000 children in Busia County were infected with HIV. By the end of 2001, there were 2000 AIDS deaths. There are currently estimated to be 50 million people living with HIV/AIDS, with 25 million lives lost by the effects of the infection. This epidemic is shattering, crippling and a very serious problem to the world. It has taken a massive number of lives, and is set to take many, many more. The only way to curb this is to keep on educating people. Bas