Income-generating activities for young people in southern Africa: Exploring AIDS and other constraints

Young people, HIV and AIDS

Young people, HIV and AIDS

Young people, HIV and AIDS

Young AIDS migrants in Southern Africa: policy implications for empowering children.

Many AIDS-affected children in southern Africa engage in migration when household members fall sick or die from AIDS, or because they are sent to assist relatives. Despite this, little attention has been paid to the consequences of these movements for children's lives. Multi-method research, conducted in Lesotho and Malawi, revealed that children sent to live with kin commonly move over long di...

Evolution of HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa

This paper presents a system dynamics model to study the spread of HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa. The HIV/AIDS model includes important feedback mechanisms of the spread of HIV/AIDS, and partly explains the dynamics of the epidemic in a representative Southern African country. The HIV/AIDS model indicates that prevention to reduce risk behavior is crucial in all stages of the epidemic, but is mos...