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Microfinance strategies for HIV/AIDS mitigation and prevention in sub-Saharan Africa
International Labour Organization, 2001The paper is intended to expose a more comprehensive range of product, service and operational services that can be incorporated into a mitigation strategy as well as to offer some insights into how best to configure the most appropriate product/service mix. This involves not only offering a broader array of products and services (e.g.DocumentThe impact of armed conflict on children
United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2000This document reviews the wide-ranging series of actions taken in response to the recommendations of the 1996 Machel Report. Many of the significant achievements are woven into this text, which constitutes an early summary of a book that will be published in early 2001.DocumentThe impact of HIV/AIDS on farming households in the Monze District of Zambia
Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997This paper focuses on how HIV/AIDS undermines household responsiveness to cope with crises, such as new agricultural policy reforms, HIV/AIDS, years of drought, and death of cattle. It uses a collection of 32 household case-studies. It investigates how caring for a chronically ill family member impinges on household production and alters labour allocation between genders and generations.DocumentPoverty and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa
HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 1998This paper, published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), presents evidence on the incidence of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa, and analyses the relationships between HIV, AIDS, and poverty. It describes three particular types of relationships. Firstly, the poor are more likely to adopt behaviours which expose them to HIV infection.DocumentCommunity-level interventions against HIV/AIDS from a gender perspective
United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2000This paper deliberately avoids dwelling on the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS, its impact on women, families, communities and on development. The author chooses rather to focus on some salient issues pertaining to Community Level Health Interventions Against HIV/AIDS from a Gender Perspective.The paper outlines policy recommendations and potential interventions in the short/medium and long-term.DocumentAIDS and agriculture in Africa: can agricultural policy make a difference?
Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2000Focussing on sub-Saharan Africa, where the HIV/AIDS epidemic has spread rapidly over the past 15 years, this article highlights the effects of the pandemic on farm households and discusses some policy issues arising from it.Effects of HIV/AIDS infection on agriculture:Reduction in area of land under cultivation, as land is often allocated by community authorities to families on the basiDocumentThe impact of HIV/AIDS on food security
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2001This article begins by emphasising that HIV/AIDS cannot be considered solely as a health problem and sufficient efforts are needed to address its social, economic and institutional consequences. Indeed the report suggests that increasingly, the HIV/AIDS epidemic is having a major impact on nutrition, food security, agricultural production and rural societies in many countries.DocumentDemobilization and its implications for HIV/AIDS
Linking Complex Emergency Response and Transition Initiative, 2000Traditionally demobilization of military personnel has followed the signature of peace accords to facilitate the transition from war to peace and to preserve national and international security.Pages