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Research suggests that feedback relationships exist between HIV/AIDS and households’ livelihoods. HIV/AIDS affected people often loose their ability to contribute to household livelihoods as their health status deteriorates. In addition due to HIV/AIDS relating stigma and social isolation peoples’ options to diversify their livelihood activities may shrink and result in the greater risk of poverty which can further aggravate the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This study hypothesizes that households with HIV positive members begin experiencing negative effects of HIV on their livelihoods systems before the symptoms of AIDS become manifest. Thus, it is hypothesized that households with HIV-positive members would have significantly lower scores on the diversification of livelihood activities when compared to households with HIV negative mothers. This hypotheses is supported in the panel of households with HIV-positive and negative mothers in Eastern Ghana. The results of the ANOVA test and SEM growth curve analysis (GC) suggest that HIV-positive group has significantly lower diversification scores and, unlike the group with HIV-negative mothers, experienced steady decrease in the measure of diversification over the 12 months period. This study argues that timely and adequate

Diversification of livelihood activities in Ghana's households: effects of HIV, stress and selected socioeconomic factors