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Marriage, schooling, and excess mortality in prime-age adults
"The institution of marriage plays some role in determining one’s risk of exposure to HIV. Since the transmission of HIV in the population is mainly through sexual activity, avoiding infection depends on risk-avoiding behavior.
Poverty, HIV and AIDS
Food security
Is poverty or wealth driving HIV transmission?
Evidence of associations between socioeconomic status and the spread of HIV in different settings and at various stages of the epidemic is still rudimentary.
The Global Hunger Index is based on three equally weighted indicators:
This study is an effort to understand the relationship between HIV/AIDS and land reform in South Africa. It is conceptualised as a longitudinal study covering three years.
A global hunger index
"Progress in combating hunger and undernutrition has been lagging for decades.
Community-level impacts of AIDS-related mortality
The broad objective of this study is to highlight key constraints, opportunities and challenges relating to interventions aimed at strengthening the nutrition security of people living with HIV who are on antiretroviral (ARV) treatment.
HIV/AIDS and the Agricultural Sector in Eastern and Southern Africa: Anticipating the Consequences
This chapter is intended to respond to the need to better understand the implications of the AIDS pandemic for the agricultural sectors in the hardest-hit countries of eastern and southern Africa.
A survey of recent writings on the interactions between the AIDS epidemic and livelihoods in Africa leaves one with the impression that development practitioners, academics, and even casual observers of developments in Africa are hell-bent on pinn
Over the past 15 years, evidence has accumulated of how HIV/AIDS impacts rural people who depend for their food and livelihood on agriculture and the management of natural resources.
In the last 20 years HIV/AIDS has progressed from seemingly isolated small epidemics to a more generalized epidemic. In countries hard hit by the epidemic, HIV/AIDS continues to contribute to the problems faced by youth.
The response to HIV/AIDS in Africa has evolved considerably since the first cases were reported on the continent in the early 1980s.