| dc.description.abstract | This thesis has examined the relationship between HIV /AIDS and agranan
processes in Kombewa since 1983. It has particularly focused on the extent to which
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HIV/AIDS has impacted on widow's and orphan's land~.rights. Th'ese rights include
ability to own, acquire (through purchase, gift, or inheritance), manage, administer,
enjoy, and dispose of land. The study has argued, inter alia, that vulnerable households
affected by HIV/AIDS have faced difficult livelihoods choices as there limited resources
are increasingly diverted to care and treatment of the infected persons. This has driven
many poor households into destitution, increasing their vulnerability to infection and has
significantly reduced their ability to cope with the consequences of the disease.
The study's specific objectives included: (a) to analyze the unexpected
consequences of land tenure reforms on those who hold secondary rights to land, such as
women, widows and minors, and how these have provided a fault line that exacerbate the
impacts of HIV/AIDS on land rights, (b) to discuss the risk environment that catalyze the
spread of HIV/AIDS in Kornbewa since 1983, (c) to investigate the direct and indirect
impacts of HIV/AIDS on widows' and orphans' ability to hold, use and transact land at
the local level, (d) to evaluate the responses of traditional land management institutions to
the issues concerning land rights in the context of HIV/AIDS, (e) to analyze the strategies
developed and used by the widows and orphans to safeguard their land rights, and (f) to
review the responses of the government and other non-governmental agencies towards
the violation of widows and orphans land rights. | en_US |
