When tea is a luxury: The economic impact of HIV/AIDS in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Grant, Miriam; Palmiere, Andrew

doi:10.1080/0002018032000148768

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“…Most studies explain that men and boys may be underrepresented in the caring repertoire of HIV and AIDS patients due to the social norms and role expectations that view caregiving as women’s responsibility. Consequently, home-based care by men may be unacceptable in most African communities [ 9 , 45 ]. However, such representation of caregiving has serious implications for the economic empowerment of women.…”

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The experiences of caregivers of children living with HIV and AIDS in Uganda: a qualitative study

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BackgroundHome-based care for HIV patients is popular in contexts severely affected by the epidemic and exacts a heavy toll on caregivers. This study aimed at understanding the experiences of caregivers and their survival strategies.MethodsA total of 18 caregivers (3 males and 15 females) were interviewed using a semi-structured interview guide, and thematic analysis was used to analyse the data.ResultsAnalysis suggests that the caregivers are burdened with insecure provisions for food and difficulties in accessing health care. They however survived these strains through managing their relationships, sharing burden with care-recipients, social networks and instrumental spirituality. These findings are discussed under two major themes: 1). Labour of caregiving and 2). Survivalism.ConclusionsHome-based care presents huge opportunities for community response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in African settings. It is however burdensome and thus should not be left for families alone to shoulder. There is therefore an urgent need for protecting home-based care for HIV children in Uganda. Implications for improving and strengthening social interventions in home-based care of HIV/AIDS in the Ugandan context are addressed.

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The experiences of caregivers of children living with HIV and AIDS in Uganda: a qualitative study

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“…The under-researched importance of the extended family has been pointed out by others – by Mtika (2003) for Malawi, and for Zimbabwe by Grant and Palmiere (2003: 233), who conclude: ‘The extended family as a safety net is still by far the most effective community response to the AIDS crisis’. The relative silence about the extended family probably derives from the dominant methods employed in research.…”

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Striving for normality in a time of AIDS in Malawi

2008

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Drawing on a twenty-year study, we examine the effects of HIV-related illness and death on villagers in Malawi during 2006. Contrary to unidimensional images of an AIDS disaster, we found people striving for normality -trying to control the abnormal circumstances of the rising toll of HIV-related illness and death. Just over 40 % of the sample households had experienced at least one death (certainly or probably) related to HIV, but only about 10% were found to be suffering acute or serious livelihood stress due to HIV deaths. The ability to deal with illness and death depended on households' pre-existing characteristics, particularly income level, and, critically, on their placement in the extended matrilineal family. But increasing pressures on an already severely stressed population, and failure of the current ' community-based ' approach to deliver

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“…Furthermore, Kate Gough's findings in Colombia showed that the same neighbourhood had HBEs in 20 per cent of dwellings in 1987 but in 30 per cent in 1997 (personal communication, 2003). A recently published study on the effects of HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe links the retrenchment of formal sector workers in the Economic Structural Adjustment Programme there with the growing incidence of HBEs (Grant and Palmiere, 2003). 8.…”

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Housing and Urban Vulnerability in Rapidly-Developing Cities

Tipple¹

2005

J Contingencies & Crisis Man

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In recent months, pictures of millions of homes flattened and washed away by the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 26 th December, 2004, have been seen on the media. Housing vulnerability is an obvious component of the disaster; the centrality of housing to the material losses suffered, the apparent ease with which so many dwellings were destroyed or rendered uninhabitable, the effect on the residents of the economic and material shock of losing their homes and property. This article looks at housing and vulnerability at several levels within the context of daily life, and of mitigating the effects of disasters on housing and its occupants. It begins by setting the context of housing loss within disasters in recent times. This is followed by an examination of the benefits which housing provision can bring to the need to reduce vulnerability, through how and by whom it is constructed and the opportunities it provides for income earning.

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When tea is a luxury: The economic impact of HIV/AIDS in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Cited by 15 publications

References 7 publications

The experiences of caregivers of children living with HIV and AIDS in Uganda: a qualitative study

The experiences of caregivers of children living with HIV and AIDS in Uganda: a qualitative study

Striving for normality in a time of AIDS in Malawi

Housing and Urban Vulnerability in Rapidly-Developing Cities

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