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The effects of HIV/AIDS on rural communities in East Africa: a 20‐year perspective
Author(s) -
Seeley Janet,
Dercon Stefan,
Barnett Tony
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
tropical medicine and international health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.056
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1365-3156
pISSN - 1360-2276
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2009.02458.x
Subject(s) - tanzania , sida , poverty , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , humanities , political science , ethnology , medicine , sociology , viral disease , art , family medicine , law
Summary Much of the research on implications of the HIV epidemic for individual households and broader rural economies in the 1980s and early 1990s predicted progressive declines in agricultural production, with dire consequences for rural livelihoods. Restudies in Tanzania and Uganda show that from 1986 to the present, HIV and AIDS have sometimes thrown households into disarray and poverty, but more often have reduced development. The progressive and systematic decline predicted in earlier work has not come to pass. However, poverty remains, as does endemic HIV disease.