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The links between agriculture and health
Marriage behavior response to prime-age adult mortality
Food insecurity and HIV/AIDS
AIDS, agriculture and climate change in Southern Africa
Multiple stressors in Southern Africa
Global environmental change and AIDS
Global environmental change in Zimbabwe is intertwined with a challenging political environment, excessive economic decline, the depletion of scarce skills, and a generalized AIDS epidemic.
The impacts of adult death on child growth and nutrition evidence from five southern African countries
The AIDS epidemic has caused a drastic increase in adult mortality. This study examines the impacts of adult deaths on child nutrition—specifically the impact on child food intake and growth with reference to their weights.
A drastic increase in AIDS-related mortality of the prime-age adult population can change many aspects of household and individual behavior.
A number of studies, in particular, epidemiological studies, have examined the association between socioeconomic characteristics and HIV infection, but the empirical evidence is mixed.
Migration, AIDS epidemics, and urban food security, interact in complex ways that are little researched and understood in the Southern and Eastern African context.
Movement of people, or migration in the positive sense of the term, contributes positively to the achievement of secure livelihoods, and to the expansion of the scope for poor people to figure out pathways out of poverty.
Die Ergebnisse des Welthunger-Indexes (WHI) zeigen deutlich, dass weiterhin nur geringe Fortschritte bei der globalen Hungerbekämpfung erzielt werden.
The 2008 Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that the world has made slow progress in reducing food insecurity since 1990, with dramatic differences among regions and countries.
The effects of increasing rates of HIV/AIDS-related illness and death on rural families in Zombia district, Malawi
The research, conducted from January to December 2006, investigated the effects of the HIV epidemic on a Zomba District sample of households that has been studied since 1986.
The social impact of cash transfers
This study explores one aspect of the broader issues of social networks.
"With high food prices threatening the food security of millions of vulnerable households around the world, hunger and malnutrition are back in the headlines.