Download or read book HIV AIDS Impacts on Household Livelihood Security written by G. Suubi and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book When AIDS meets poverty written by Carolyne I. Nombo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the fifth in the AWLAE series. The AWLAE titles address the issue of gendered impacts of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. The present book is based on research in a village in Tanzania about the role of social capital in mitigating AIDS impacts, at the level of the household and within the local community. It contributes to the current knowledge base on social capital by questioning general assumptions on the role of social capital in rural livelihoods in a context of high HIV/AIDS prevalence. Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, the research yielded empirical evidence about the limitations of social capital as a resource for the poor. Both the generation and sustenance of social capital at household level are severely challenged by declining access to other livelihood assets as a consequence of HIV/AIDS. In a situation where HIV/AIDS is still shrouded in secrecy and stigma at the community level, a decline of trust in social relations and community institutions as well as a proliferation of witchcraft accusations, could be observed. This insightful publication provides a timely contribution to the discourse on the significance of social capital for the poor, ensuring that social scientists will never look at social capital in quite the same way.

Download or read book Gender AIDS and food security written by Mariame Maiga and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-04 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the effects of AIDS on women and food security in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. AIDS is more than a health problem. Rural households and women in particular have to cope with the lack of labour in agriculture which threatens their food security. For the matrilineal Agni women land ownership appears to be an unexpected burden, rather than a safeguard from poverty. Culture matters, but not in similar ways everywhere. Matrilineal or patrilineal kinship organisation, gender inequality, and norms about sexual relationships very much influence the differences in Agni and migrant women's vulnerability to AIDS. African women are often seen as victims of AIDS. This study shows that women may also use their creativity and social networks to battle and to be resilient against the effects of the illness in their everyday household activities. Using a combination of quantitative statistical data and qualitative methods, this research questions the effectiveness of mainstream AIDS policy and interventions in Côte d'Ivoire. Victimising the poor does not help. Instead, multi-sector policy intervention can mitigate the social effects of AIDS by improving household food security and by changing cultural practices through local leaders who have historical legitimacy and power.

Download or read book The Impact of HIV written by John Mazzeo and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study aims to understand the mechanisms by which HIV/AIDS affects the means, relations and processes of rural livelihood systems practiced by the Shona living in the arid southeastern region of Zimbabwe. It shows how these households that participate in that livelihood system and respond to the shocks and stresses associated with HIV/AIDS. During fieldwork in 2004 and 2005, this region underwent a severe and prolonged drought resulting in the widespread loss of staple crops and placing the nation in a declared food emergency. Widespread poverty, stigma and an inadequate health care system further exacerbate the crisis created by HIV infection, limiting the range of household options to access care and nutrition. I propose that HIV/AIDS constitutes a shock or threat to the functioning of a livelihood system and its ability to respond to drought. The analysis investigates a set of mechanisms internal to the Shona livelihood system to show the impacts of HIV/AIDS at the household level. It presents a scenario in which the harsh synergism of drought and HIV/AIDS result in significant loss of livelihood security.

Download or read book Interactions Between HIV AIDS and the Environment written by Susan M. Bolton and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2010 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Living with AIDS in Uganda written by Monica Karnhanga Beraho and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was originally written as a doctoral dissertation. The research in this book was carried out among banana-farming households in the districts of Masaka and Kabarole in Uganda. A gendered livelihood approach was used. The research focused on the identification of critical factors that need to be taken into consideration in the development of relevant policies for HIV/AIDS-affected agriculture-based households or those that are at risk. The book shows that HIV/AIDS causes significant negative effects on the lives of those affected. Their resources are affected due to HIV/AIDS-related labour loss and asset-eroding effects and disinvestment in production and child education. While in the overwhelming majority of the affected cases the effects of AIDS are negative and lead to increased impoverishment and vulnerability, for some households HIV/AIDS-related effects are manageable. It is concluded that a household’s socio-economic status and demographic characteristics influence the magnitude of HIV/AIDS-related impacts experienced and capacity to cope. The book also highlights some historically specific social practices, policies, and ideologies that continue to maintain or reproduce distinct forms of inequality, with certain social groups being marginalized and others being privileged. Unless these are redressed, they will continue to aggravate people’s vulnerability regardless of the type of shock that they are exposed to or experience.

Download or read book Ageing and Poverty in Africa written by Alun Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2003. The rapid demographic aging of populations worldwide, and most dramatically in developing countries, will result in unprecedented increases in the absolute and relative numbers of the aged in these countries. Whilst developed economies already have the basic infrastructure in place through which to support their ageing populations, developing nations frequently do not, and it should not be assumed that their best course of action is to attempt to duplicate the supportive infrastructures of developed countries. In developing nations these may be culturally inappropriate, geographically inaccessible, economically or politically unsustainable, or all of these. Effective and sustainable support services must be designed with reference to the circumstances of the client group, and it is increasingly evident that knowledge of the lives of the aged in developing countries is currently very limited. This book aims to inform the reader on the livelihoods of elders in developing countries and to stimulate a discussion of appropriate methods of supporting them in maintaining their quality of life during and beyond the coming decades of demographic change. It does so through reporting the lives and livelihoods of the aged population of Kikole (a pseudonym), a highly impoverished village in Uganda. Individual livelihoods are explored from a lifecourse perspective, with present day quality of life being shown often to be the result of earlier enforced changes in circumstances arising in economic, social or cultural marginalization, political or physical insecurity, or macro-economic change, rather than in the physical or mental changes that may accompany advancing age.

Download or read book HIV AIDS and Agriculture in sub Saharan Africa written by Tanja R. Müller and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the first in a series on HIV/AIDS and agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa with the overall objective of providing a resource base on issues of rural development in a broad sense in the times of HIV/AIDS. This first book discusses the impact of the epidemic as it has emerged over the last decades at different levels of the agricultural sector, namely the farming system level, the livelihood level, and the household level. In a further step, impact on the agricultural estate sector as well as pastoralism is discussed. One overarching issue that emerges is the importance of gender attributes to adequately understand and address HIV/AIDS impact - the topic at the centre of the second part of the series. The text ends with a discussion of HIV/AIDS in relation to other shocks that befall rural livelihoods. It is followed by an annotated bibliography.

Download or read book AIDS Poverty and Hunger written by Stuart Gillespie and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The global AIDS epidemic has caused over 25 million deaths since 1981, and there is no end in sight. It is a multidimensional, phased, long-wave crisis with impacts that will be felt for decades to come. Attempts to defeat the epidemic are conventionally grounded in the three core pillars of AIDS policy: prevention, treatment and care, and mitigation. But there is also an urgent need for a deeper understanding of the integral role that food and nutrition can and should play, and a corresponding urgency to use that understanding to improve responses at all levels.The 18 essays in AIDS, Poverty, and Hunger: Challenges and Responses contribute to such an understanding by examining the impacts of HIV and AIDS on labor markets and wages, household income and consumption dynamics, and the agricultural sector as a whole; by studying the ways in which households respond to prime-age illness, death, and food insecurity; and by exploring the implications of local responses for the roles that national and international actors must play in addressing the AIDS-hunger nexus.This book creates an opportunity for development professionals to build the conceptual links lacking in current multisectoral frameworks, assess impacts and costs, propose indicators and monitoring systems, and design appropriate food- and nutrition-related interventions and policies."

Download or read book Rural Household Community Level Responses to the Impact of HIV AIDS on Food Livelihood Security in Zimbabwe and Botswana written by Ian Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HIV/AIDS-related sickness and death affect household food security by: reducing the ability to produce and/or buy food; depleting household assets; and reducing the value of social insurance networks as favours are called in. Conversely, food insecurity exacerbates vulnerability to the impacts of HIV/AIDS on the household and community and also susceptibility to HIV infection. The primary research was undertaken in Chimanimani and Bulilima Districts, Zimbabwe, and Kweneng West Distric, Botswana. Twenty-eight focus group discussions and fifty key informant interviews were conducted to identify and prioritise the communities' key problems, constraints and opportunities. A small-scale livelihood survey sampled 180 households: 60 households in each of the three districts. The survey samples were stratified in accordance with local participatory wealth-ranking exercises; weighted in proportion to the distribution of households within each wealth stratum; and selected at random within each wealth stratum. Households categorized as HIV/AIDS-affected were those caring for children orphaned by AIDS, or having at least one member aged between 18-50 with AIDS-related symptoms who had been ill for the past month or died within the previous five years. Over one third (38%) of sampled households were affected by HIV/AIDS, of which 42% were female-headed. Significantly more of the HIV/AIDS-affected households surveyed showed indications of vulnerability to shocks impacting on food and livelihood security. More HIV/AIDS-affected households were likely to adopt erosive response mechanisms, including decreased consumption and child labour. Drought, unemployment, poverty and youth migration were prioritized as key issues contributing to the spread of HIV/AIDS. Community-based responses included networks of volunteers to provide home-based care to chronically ill patients and nutrition gardens had been organized to provide patients with fresh vegetables. In Chimanimani, volunteers were visiting orphans and income-generation projects had been initiated for older orphans. Young people had formed groups of peer educators and a theatre project had been established to raise awareness of HIV. Interventions to enhance the livelihood security of all vulnerable households would prolong the life expectancy of people living with HIV/AIDS, with the accompanying benefits to their families.

Download or read book Incorporating HIV AIDS Considerations Into Food Security and Livelihood Projects written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Measuring Impacts of HIV AIDS on Rural Livelihoods and Food Security written by FAO.HIV/AIDS Programme and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book HIV and AIDS and Economic Development written by CARE USA's HIV/AIDS & Economic Development Units and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HIV & AIDS is perhaps the most devastating disease of our time, the burden of which is carried by developing countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. It is now widely accepted and recognized that HIV & AIDS should no longer be addressed as solely a health issue, but as a development issue, which encompasses all aspects of social and economic life. The two-way relationship between HIV & AIDS and livelihood security is undeniable. HIV & AIDS affects people's livelihoods and, similarly, livelihood insecurity heightens the risk of exposure to HIV and the impacts of AIDS. If development actors are to reach their objectives in countries and communities affected by HIV & AIDS, then they must recognize how the disease impacts upon their target and beneficiary groups, and how modified programming can reduce both the risk of HIV transmission and the impacts of AIDS on affected households. Appropriate economic development programming can also support the achievement of HIV & AIDS and health outcomes, including reducing risky behaviours, positive living HIV, access and adherence to treatment and the mitigation of the social and economic impacts of AIDS.

Download or read book The Effects of HIV AIDS on Urban Livelihood written by Berhanu Ayalew and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Effects of HIV/AIDS on Urban Livelihood; A household level analysis in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, Africa clearly shows how urban life is sophisticated, Monetized and challenging coupled with the effects of HIV/AIDS. straggling to secure daily basic needs such as food, shelter, and pure water.The human, physical, social, financial capitals are highly degraded and the issue of survival is endangered because of the effects and impacts of HI

Download or read book Sustainable Agricultural rural Development and Vulnerability to the AIDS Epidemic written by Daphne Topouzis and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study, a joint publication by FAO and UNAIDS, describes how the HIV epidemic is undermining the hard-earned gains of development efforts of the last 40 years.

Download or read book The President s Plan for AIDS Relief written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Interventions of Livelihood Options for HIV and AIDS Affected People in the Rural Areas written by R. Chinnadurai and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: