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Incorporating HIV/AIDS Considerations into Vulnerability Assessments for Disaster Risk Reduction

Author(s) -

Gideon van Riet

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

jàmbá journal of disaster risk studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.424

H-Index - 12

eISSN - 2072-845X

pISSN - 1996-1421

DOI - 10.4102/jamba.v1i1.7

Subject(s) - vulnerability (computing) , vulnerability assessment , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , disaster risk reduction , risk analysis (engineering) , natural hazard , environmental health , political science , business , environmental resource management , computer security , psychology , medicine , computer science , social psychology , economics , geography , psychological resilience , virology , meteorology

The paper briefly highlights the link between HIV/AIDS and vulnerability, the latter being a focus point of DRR. In particular it investigates in which ways HIV/AIDS contributes to the vulnerability (for the purposes of this discussion defined as the susceptibility of households to the negative effects of certain natural hazards, brought on by the interplay between various political, economic, social and environmental factors) of households. Secondly, the paper investigates the possible measurement of HIV/AIDS in general vulnerability assessments used for the purposes of DRR, by evaluating the merit of certain indicators often used to target humanitarian aid

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