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  Transactional sex and risk for HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

  2016

  Young women aged 15 to 24 years in sub-Saharan Africa continue to be disproportionately affected by HIV. A growing number of studies have suggested that the practice of transactional sex may in part explain women's heightened risk, but evidence on the association between transactional sex and HIV has not yet been synthesized.
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  Ending child marriage and stopping the spread of HIV ...opportunities and challenges for action

  End Child Marriage Now (African Union), 2016

  AIDS is now the number-one killer of adolescents in Africa. What is more worrying is that seven of every 10 new infections of HIV among adolescents are girls, which shows how vulnerable girls are to acquiring HIV.
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  Averting 'New Variant Famine' in Southern Africa: building food-secure livelihoods with AIDS-affected young people

  Economic and Social Research Council, UK, 2009

  Numerous reports have linked AIDS’ impacts on young people and their long term food insecurity, through, for instance, orphans’ failure to inherit property and resources; inability to retain rights to land which they are too young or inexperienced to farm; or interruption of intergenerational knowledge transfer following parental deaths.
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  Averting ‘New Variant Famine’ in Southern Africa: building food-secure rural livelihoods with AIDS-affected young people

  Department for International Development, UK, 2009

  Southern Africa is experiencing the world’s highest HIV prevalence rates alongside recurrent food crises. This has prompted scholars to hypothesise a 'New Variant Famine' in which inability to access food is driven by the effects of AIDS. In line with this, it has been suggested that the impacts of AIDS on young people today is likely to diminish their prospects of food security in adult life.
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  Learning from young people about their lives: using participatory methods to research the impacts of AIDS in southern Africa

  Children's Geographies, 2012

  Methods of participatory research have become popular among children’s geographers as they are believed to enable young people to speak openly about their lives in unthreatening contexts.
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  Averting ‘New Variant Famine’ in Southern Africa: building food secure rural livelihoods with AIDS-affected young people

  Department for International Development, UK, 2009

  Southern Africa is experi-encing the world’s highest HIV prevalence rates alongside recurrent food crises. This has prompted scholars to hypothesise a 'New Variant Famine' in which inability to access food is driven by the ef-fects of AIDS.
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  Income generating activities as components of sustainable rural livelihoods for young southern Africans - AIDS and other constraints

  The Geographical Journal, 2011

  The literature dedicated to exploring rural livelihoods in southern Africa has devoted comparatively little attention to non-agricultural livelihoods, as several authors have pointed out. This gap in knowledge about non-agricultural livelihoods is also reflected in the literature looking at the effects of AIDS on rural livelihoods in Southern Africa.
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  Factors shaping the HIV-competence of two primary schools in rural Zimbabwe

  International Journal of Educational Development, 2015

  School attendance often has positive impacts on the well-being of HIV-affected and HIV-vulnerable children in sub-Saharan Africa.
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  The role of schools in supporting HIV-affected children in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review

  London School of Economics, 2012

  HIV-affected children (themselves sick/with sick parents/orphaned) are particularly vulnerable to poor nutrition, mental and physical health, sexual abuse and poverty - which consequently tend to have a negative impact on their school enrolment and academic progress.
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  AIDS-affected young people’s access to livelihood assets: Exploring 'new variant famine' in rural southern Africa

  Journal of Rural Studies, 2016

  The ‘new variant famine’ hypothesis suggests AIDS is contributing to food insecurity in southern Africa. Proposed causal mechanisms include a loss of livelihood assets and skills, brought about through AIDS′ impacts on children’s access to inherited property and intergenerationally-transferred knowledge.

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