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The role of social grants in mitigating the socio-economic impact of hiv/aids in two free state communities1
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In this paper, the authors investigated the role of social grants in mitigating the socioeconomic impact of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, using data from a panel study on the household impact of the epidemic.Abstract:
Social grants may play an important role in mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS. Eligibility for these grants is driven in part by the increasing burden of chronic illness, the mounting orphan crisis and the impoverishment of households associated with the epidemic. This article investigates the role of social grants in mitigating the socio-economic impact of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, using data from a panel study on the household impact of the epidemic. Social grants reduce inequality and decrease the prevalence, depth and severity of poverty in affected households. However, these transfers also have disincentive effects on employment, while non-uptake is in some cases higher amongst the poorest.read more
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Asset ownership and health and mental health functioning among AIDS-orphaned adolescents: findings from a randomized clinical trial in rural Uganda.
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The impact of the Social Cash Transfer Scheme on food security in Malawi
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Female-headed households contending with AIDS-related hardship in rural South Africa
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TL;DR: This analysis examines female-heads' financial and social resources and how these resources buffer against hardship in households affected by AIDS, and finds considerable heterogeneity among rural female-headed households and their access to resources to combat AIDS-related hardship.
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A novel economic intervention to reduce HIV risks among school-going AIDS orphans in rural Uganda.
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Social grants as safety net for HIV / AIDS-affected households in South Africa : original article
TL;DR: The rate of poverty reduction continued to increase over time in affected households, but remained relatively stable in the case of households that had not experienced morbidity or mortality, which saw the gap in the incidence, depth and severity of poverty between affected households and households that did not experience morbidity decline.
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Large Cash Transfers to the Elderly in South Africa
Anne Case,Angus Deaton +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examined the social pension in South Africa, where large cash sums-about twice the median per capita income of African households-are paid to people qualified by age but irrespective of previous contributions.
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Poverty and household size
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TL;DR: The authors found that the correlation between poverty and size vanishes in Pakistan when the size elasticity of the cost of living is about 0.6, which turns out to be the elasticity implied by a modified version of the food share method of setting scales.
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Measuring the Impacts of Working-Age Adult Mortality on Small-Scale Farm Households in Kenya
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