AIDS and Rural Livelihoods : Dynamics and Diversity in sub-Saharan Africa.
AIDS epidemics continue to threaten the livelihoods of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa. Three decades after the disease was first recognized, the annual death toll from AIDS exceeds that from wars, famine and floods combined. Yet despite millions of dollars of aid and research, there has pr...
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2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Contents; List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Chapter 1 AIDS in Africa: dynamics and diversity of impacts and response; Chapter 2 The longitudinal picture: What does it reveal?; Chapter 3 Resilience and (dis)continuity in households afflicted by AIDS: Some preliminary insights from a longitudinal case study analysis; Chapter 4 Impacts of AIDS-related morbidity and mortality on non-urban households in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; Chapter 5 Sweet cane, bitter realities: The complex realities of AIDS in Mkamba, Kilombero District, Tanzania.
- Chapter 6 Single women's experiences of livelihood conditions, HIV and AIDS in the rural areas of ZimbabweChapter 7 Regional agricultural-consumption regimes and women's vulnerability to HIV in Kenya; Chapter 8 Multilayered impacts of AIDS and implications for food security among banana farmers in Uganda; Chapter 9 Impact of HIV/AIDS on local farming knowledge: differences in the cognitive salience of maize crop pests between affected and non-affected adults and children in Benin.
- Chapter 10 Adult mortality, food security and the use of wild natural resources in a rural district of South Africa: Exploring the environmental dimensions of AIDS?Chapter 11 Applying the Farmer Life School approach to support women of poor and HIV/AIDS-affected households in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; Chapter 12 Agricultural policy response to HIV and AIDS: Lessons learned from East and Southern Africa; Chapter 13 AIDS and livelihoods: What have we learned and where are we heading?; Index.