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Searching with a thematic focus on Ageing, HIV and AIDS, HIV and AIDS vulnerable groups in Tanzania

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  Growing older in Africa and Asia: Multicentre study on ageing, health and well-being. Global health Action journal, supplement 2

  Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, 2010

  Selection of articles looking at the status of the elderly in Asia and Africa, resulting from the collaboration of the International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE). Article titles include:
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  The long-run impacts of adult deaths on older household members in Tanzania

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2009

  Increases in prime-age mortality rates in high-prevalence African countries due to HIV/AIDS have resulted in "missing" working-age adults, which has implications on the well-being of surviving family members. This study about Tanzanian case focuses on one specific category, older adults, who may be especially vulnerable.
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  Living with our Bibi: a qualitative study of children living with grandmothers in the Nshamba area of north western Tanzania

  HelpAge International, 2008

  The Kwa Wazee Project works with grandparents and the grandchildren who live with them (generally orphaned as a result of HIV/AIDS) in the Kagera district of Tanzania. The main activity of the Project is to provide a cash transfer in the form of a pension to grandparents (mostly grandmothers). Grannies get small monthly pensions for themselves and for the grandchildren they support.
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  Kwa Wazee

  Organisation working with the elderly to promote pension programmes in Tanzania.
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  Building Bridges: home-based care model for supporting older carers of people living with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania

  HelpAge International, 2007

  Research in 2006 by Helpage International and partners of Tanzania shows that 20-45 % of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and 25-75 % of vulnerable children are cared for in older headed households. Older people’s role of caring for their dependents is difficult in a complex environment.
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  The elderly and AIDS: coping strategies and health consequences in rural Tanzania

  Population Council, USA, 2002

  This paper, published by the Population Council, examines the effects on the elderly of the death from AIDS of prime-aged adults, using household survey data from northwestern Tanzania in 1991-94. The paper reveals that a significant proportion of adults suffering from AIDS return to their parents’ home shortly before death.