The hidden battle: HIV/AIDS in the household and community

Learning from diverse contexts: Equity and inclusion in the responses to AIDS

“…Coping responses such as the sale of household assets, including land and cattle, eating into savings and borrowing from various sources, reported in background literature across a range of communities, were also found in the studies described in this supplement (Desmond et al, 2002;Kanyamurwa & Ampek, 2007;Priya & Sathyamala, 2007). These responses often took place against a background of existing disadvantage in assets, endowments and access to state and private sector resources, such as for women farmers in Uganda, threatening survival or deepening poverty, despite efforts to use remaining resources to the maximum.…”

“…Early adult illness and mortality produces high costs to households, no matter what the cause, and is experienced due to a range of communicable diseases, violence, unsafe working and living conditions and maternal causes. When health programmes exclusively focus on AIDS, while they may give urgency to the issue, they may also ignore this wider community experience and potentially increase stigma, especially in early stages of the epidemic (Amuyunzu-Nyamongo et al, 2007;Desmond et al, 2002;Priya & Sathyamala, 2007).…”

Analysis of Psychology, Social, and Immunity in HIV/AIDS Patients Who Had Been Worked as Migrant Indonesia Worker in East Java

“…When anger goes, the patient will think and feel that their protest is useless. Feeling guilty and having good relation with God, swear to be better personality if the patient can be cured, is all the characteristic of the patient in this step [7].…”

Household impacts of AIDS: using a life course approach to identify effective, poverty-reducing interventions for prevention, treatment and care

“…Household survey data from four sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries with different epidemic patterns (Ghana, Kenya, Swaziland and Zambia) showed that AIDS increased the share in income poverty beyond levels expected by its impact on average income, with its strongest effects on those just above the poverty line (Salinas & Haacker, 2006). Poverty outcomes are greater in households heavily reliant on household and community level safety nets without transfers from outside communities (Booysen, 2002;Salinas & Haacker, 2006); as well as in conditions of greater informal employment, weak social support networks in communities and where there are barriers in access to social service delivery due to underfunding, user charges or costs of transport (Bachmann & Booysen, 2003;Barnett & Whiteside, 2006;Desmond, Michael, & Gow, 2002;Nyamathi, Flaskerud, Bennett, Leake, & Lewis, 1994;Rosen et al, 2004).…”