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Background Data on mental health among orphaned children in India are scanty. We compared the generalized anxiety, conduct and peer relationship problems and their associated risk factors among children orphaned by HIV/AIDS and those due to other reasons in the Indian city of Hyderabad. Methods Four hundred orphaned children aged 12 to 16 years residing in orphanages in Hyderabad were sampled, half...