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  Beyond Unpaid Caregiving: Strategic Partnering to Support and Sustain Grassroots Women's Groups? Home-Based Care Work (in the context of HIV)

  Huairou Commission, 2008

  While the need for, and existence of, home-based care provision has expanded rapidly across the world, it has received little serious attention or support from governments or donors. ?Home-based care? (HBC) for people living with HIV or AIDS includes all the care-related tasks carried out by members of a household where one or more person is sick.
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  Caring From Within: Key Findings and Policy Recommendations on Home-based Care in Zimbabwe

  Southern Africa HIV/AIDS Information and Dissemination Service, 2009

  In Zimbabwe, as in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, home-based care (HBC) plays a vital role in the response to HIV, as overwhelmed public health systems fail to meet care needs. Traditionally, the care-giving role has been performed by women, although male participation has increased moderately in recent years as a result of deliberate efforts by HBC programmes.
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  Gendered Home-based Care in South Africa: More Trouble for the Troubled

  African Journals Online - AJOL, 2006

  This study investigates the experiences of primary care-givers of people living with HIV in two semi-rural communities in South Africa. Ethnographic methods were used to collect and analyse data on the gendered nature and consequences of care-giving.
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  Gender and Care: Overview Report

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009

  Providing care can be both a source of fulfilment and a terrible burden. For women and girls in particular, their socially prescribed role as carers can undermine their rights and limit their opportunities, capabilities and choices - posing a fundamental obstacle to gender equality and well-being.
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  Changing Household Structures and Gender Relations in Lesotho

  2005

  Since the 1980s Lesotho has been undergoing a period of rapid economic and demographic change. This Brief analyses how changing livelihood options for women and men are impacting on household structures, gender relations, and the gender division of labour.
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  CARE South Africa-Lesotho, HIV/AIDS Strategy

  CARE International, 2008

  This paper sets out the strategy for CARE South Africa-Lesotho's work around HIV/AIDS. It highlights ways in which gender relations and norms contribute to the spread of AIDS in Lesotho, including the difficulty women and girls face within relationships because of their unequal status to protect themselves from HIV infection and food insecurity.
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  To Have and to Hold: Women's Property and Inheritance Rights in the Context of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

  International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2004

  What are the links between HIV/AIDS and women's property rights in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)? This paper asks if women's lack of rights increases household poverty and their own vulnerability to infection, and if securing these rights can reduce the impacts of the epidemic on poverty.
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  Epidemic of Inequality: Women's Rights and HIV/AIDS in Botswana and Swaziland

  2007

  The continuing high prevalence of HIV in Botswana and Swaziland particularly among women, demonstrates that HIV campaigns, scaled-up HIV testing and treatment are not enough. The epidemic in each country, as across Southern Africa, is primarily transmitted through sexual practices rooted in women's disempowerment and facilitated by poverty and food insecurity.
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  Cash Transfers and Gender Relations: Evidence from a Pilot Project in Lesotho (draft)

  BRIDGE, 2008

  What impact do cash-transfers have on gender relations? There are two main ways in which cash transfer projects are seen as having potentially negative impacts on gender relations within recipient households. First, it is supposed that women are less likely to be able to command control over the use of cash within the household compared to certain types of in-kind assistance, namely food.
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  Women Organizing for Social Protection: The Self Employed Women's Association's Integrated Insurance Scheme, India

  International Labour Organization, 2001

  Several international declarations and conventions establish social protection as a universal human right. Most countries in the world also recognise the individual's right to social protection in their national constitution or legislation. Nevertheless, today, the majority of the world's population still has no access to this kind of protection.

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