Joint Learning Initiative on Children and HIV/AIDS JLICA Learning Group 1 – Strengthening Families
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Many countries in southern Africa are home to a large number of rural people, dependent on rain-fed agriculture, barely subsisting at poverty levels in years without shocks, and highly vulnerable to the vagaries of the weather, the economy and government policy. Within this context, characterised by a range of multiple stressors on people's livelihoods, particularly exacerbated by HIV and AIDS, families attempt to plan and act to secure their own livelihoods and the future for their children. Through a review of literature and case studies this paper argues that families are often unable to recover sufficiently from these " entwined " stressors, particularly as HIV and AIDS has undermined their resilience, with the result that they are unable to adequately secure the future of their children beyond immediate needs. Rather short-term demands around basic survival limit choices and with few material resources, inadequate external support and poor access to appropriate services, the long-term welfare of children has become a serious challenge for many families. This argument is explored by looking at issues of family food security, education options and the inheritance of property to underpin the future sustainable livelihoods of children.
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Strengthening families: a key recommendation of the Joint Learning Initiative on Children and AIDS (JLICA).
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The joint learning initiative on children and HIV/AIDS.
Learning Initiative on Children and HIV/AIDS is an independent, interdisciplinary network of policy-makers, practitioners, community leaders, activists, researchers, and people living with HIV, working to improve the well-being of HIV-affected children, their families and communities. All reasonable precautions have been taken by JLICA to verify the information contained in this publication. Ho...
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1 The author would like to acknowledge that this paper was inspired by the Cost of Inaction project at the FXB Center. Work on the FXB Cost of Inaction project was initiated by Albina du Boisrouvray several years ago, which long predates this paper. The FXB project on the cost of inaction is an indepth and comprehensive examination of the social and economic consequences of inaction in the shor...
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Location Total N of papers generated Relevant N (after detailed reading) Medical and Social Science indices 360 142 (39.4%) Toronto AIDS conference 344 166 (48.3%) Bangkok AIDS conference 298 75 (25.2%)
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