HIV-related stigma, asset inheritance and chronic poverty: Vulnerability and resilience of widows and caregiving children and youth in Tanzania and Uganda
Ruth Evans
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Ruth Evans: Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading, Reading, UK
Progress in Development Studies, 2015, vol. 15, issue 4, 326-342
Abstract:
This article develops a framework of risk and protective factors to conceptualize the relationship between HIV-related stigma, asset inheritance and chronic poverty among widows and caregiving children and youth in Eastern Africa. Analysis of two qualitative studies with 85 participants in rural and urban areas of Tanzania and Uganda reveals that gendered and generational inequalities and stigmatization sometimes leads to property grabbing and chronic poverty. Human and social capital and preventative measures however may help widows and caregiving young people in HIV-affected households to safeguard land and other assets, within a wider supportive environment that seeks to tackle structural inequalities.
Keywords: risk and resilience; asset inheritance and disinheritance; chronic poverty; HIV stigma; widows and caregiving children and young people; Tanzania and Uganda (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1177/1464993415592740
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