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Title:Dimensions of vulnerability: the impact of HIV/AIDS on livelihoods in southern Zimbabwe, 1986-2007
Author:Mushongah, JosphatISNI
Year:2012
Periodical:Journal of Southern African Studies (ISSN 1465-3893)
Volume:38
Issue:3
Pages:551-577
Language:English
Geographic term:Zimbabwe
Subjects:AIDS
livelihoods
rural households
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03057070.2012.700201
Abstract:In the last two decades, a huge body of literature has been generated on HIV/AIDS and its multidimensional and pervasive consequences, particularly on lives and livelihoods of households and communities in sub-Saharan Africa. Using village studies conducted in the 1980s as a baseline, this article investigates the long-term effects of HIV/AIDS on a sample of rural households in southern Zimbabwe over a 20-year period. The author's aim is to contribute to studies of the impact of HIV/AIDS that take a longitudinal perspective, by investigating whether the trajectories, impacts and responses are consistent with other findings in this growing literature. For instance, has the predicted 'worst-case scenario' of disintegrating coping strategies, household dissolution, orphanhood and progressive and massive decline in agricultural production and food insecurity, been realized? This study, predominantly based on in-depth and deeply personal accounts, shows that the impact did not follow the predicted linear pattern. The task of isolating the effects of HIV/AIDS from other deleterious effects also proved difficult in a context characterized by multiple shocks and stresses which often reinforced one another. Village-level studies based on longitudinal perspectives, however, allow us to glean numerous insights and effective strategies for reducing vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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