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Parents providing care to adult sons and daughters with HIV/AIDS in Thailand
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2001
This report is a qualitative analysis of the circumstances and consequences of parental caregiving to adult children with AIDS in Thailand based on open-ended interviews, primarily with parents of adult children who died of AIDS.The results reveal the circumstances that lead to parental caregiving, the tasks involved and the stress they created, how parents coped with this stress, and the conse
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The elderly, HIV/AIDS and sustainable rural development
Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2002
This paper demonstrates that in high-prevalence countries, HIV/AIDS can modify the shape of the population pyramid in ways which developing countries have never experienced. The impacts of this new and brutal ageing of populations raise fundamental questions for food security, rural development, and the roles assigned to generations and between men and women.