A young woman with AIDS is comforted by her sister
In areas with few palliative carefacilities, when a person becomes ill from AIDS the care is usually a woman’s responsibility. In 2004 in Vietnam for example, 75 percent of all caregivers for persons living with HIV/AIDS were women16. This care giving is usually in addition to many other tasks that women perform within the household, such as cooking, cleaning, and caring for the children and the elderly
Caring for ill parents, children or husbands is unpaid and can increase a person’s workload by up to a third17. Women often struggle to bring in an income whilst providing care and therefore many families affected by AIDS suffer from increasing poverty. In some areas of sub-Saharan Africa where a family’s livelihood relies on growing and maintaining crops, the death of farmers can lead to famine18.
The HIV/AIDS epidemic also affects young girls and elderly women. Often households where both the husband and the wife are ill from AIDS, girls are usually the main carers, even if it means that they have to miss school. If both parents die then it tends to be the grandmothers, aunts or cousins who then look after the AIDS orphans
Caring for ill parents, children or husbands is unpaid and can increase a person’s workload by up to a third17. Women often struggle to bring in an income whilst providing care and therefore many families affected by AIDS suffer from increasing poverty. In some areas of sub-Saharan Africa where a family’s livelihood relies on growing and maintaining crops, the death of farmers can lead to famine18.
The HIV/AIDS epidemic also affects young girls and elderly women. Often households where both the husband and the wife are ill from AIDS, girls are usually the main carers, even if it means that they have to miss school. If both parents die then it tends to be the grandmothers, aunts or cousins who then look after the AIDS orphans
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