JNH350H1 Lecture Notes - Fax, Nomic, Natural Capital
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Social science & medicine 64 (2007) 1032 1041 www. elsevier. com/locate/socscimed. The poverty-hiv/aids nexus in africa: a livelihood approach. This paper reviews the nexus between poverty and hiv/aids in africa using a sustainable livelihood framework. International evidence has concentrated on the pathways through which hiv/aids undermines livelihoods and raises vulnerability to future collapse of livelihoods. Yet, little attention has been paid to the role that social relations and livelihood strategies can play in bringing about risky social interaction that raises the chance of contracting hiv. Keywords: africa; hiv/aids; poverty; sustainable livelihood framework; social relations framework. Two strands of orthodoxy have held sway over most writings on the relationship between the aids epidemic and poverty in africa. The conventional view of the poverty aids nexus is that debilitating. Hiv or full-blown aids undermine livelihoods by eroding affected households" resource base, thereby raising vulnerability to future collapse of liveli- hoods.
