Addressing HIV and Gender Inequities through Agriculture
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The overwhelming majority of people living with HIV and dying of AIDS are the rural poor of developing countries, and among them women figure disproportionately. This is particularly true in Eastern and Central Africa where the cumulative impact of many years of political crises, conflicts and displacements have disrupted the livelihoods of local populations. Breaking the inter-generational transfer of indigenous knowledge and life skills, causing individual and social trauma, the loss o f productive assets and triggering the destruction of already scarce rural infrastructures, the long-standing protracted humanitarian emergencies are further aggravated by the HIV epidemic. The intensity with which HIV impacts vulnerable populations is striking: through stigmatization and loss of labour force, families fall into a downward spiral of impoverishment, loss of assets and adopting risky coping strategies.