TAILIEUCHUNG - 2010 Women, Land and Secure Tenure: The HIV/AIDS Connection

HIV and AIDS have had a devastating impact on the world’s women. In 2008, of the million people living with HIV worldwide, million, nearly half, were women (UNAIDS, 2009). Grassroots women living in developing regions particularly in Africa and the Caribbean have been especially hard hit. Not only do women seem to be more vulnerable than men to HIV infection, but they also are more greatly affected by the impacts of HIV and AIDS, because of socioeconomic, cultural and political power disparities, and because they tend to absorb the vast majority of the burden of care. . | cure DS aIROU C imission 2U I u Introduction HIV and AIDS have had a devastating impact on the world s women. In 2008 of the million people living with HIV worldwide million nearly half were women UNAIDS 2009 . Grassroots women living in developing regions particularly in Africa and the Caribbean have been especially hard hit. Not only do women seem to be more vulnerable than men to HIV infection but they also are more greatly affected by the impacts of HIV and AIDS because of socioeconomic cultural and political power disparities and because they tend to absorb the vast majority of the burden of care. There are multifaceted complex and inter-related issues underlying both of these phenomena. One area that is gaining attention and being increasingly analyzed and acted upon by grassroots women s organizations is the interplay of women s access to control and ownership of land and housing and HIV. Ownership of housing and land are significant components of a woman s overall well-being and security. Practices that exclude and deny women adequate rights to land and housing have a complex relationship to HIV and AIDS - increasing women s ability to claim gain and maintain ownership of land and housing may be central to curbing the spread and mitigating the effects of HIV. Lack of secure tenure increases HIV AIDS risk and reduces ability to cope with the disease and its impacts. Without a secure residence or land to cultivate many women cannot access treatment or take care of themselves as needed. Response of women to these issues also plays a role in policy at the local national and global levels. Our goal is to present the realities of grassroots women working at the intersection of these issues to show how these issues are affecting grassroots women and communities and to provide examples of grassroots women-led initiatives to directly address the challenges. Lack of Secure Tenure and Increased Risk Grassroots women s lack of access to secure land and .

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