Urban health in Johannesburg: The importance of place in understanding intra-urban inequalities in a context of migration and HIV

Vearey, Jo; Palmary, Ingrid; Thomas, Liz; Núñez, Lorena; Drimie, Scott

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.02.007

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“…Almost half (49.6 %) of total expenditure by households sampled was spent on food, reflecting a widespread pattern that poorer households spend a greater proportion of their income on food. Further, the overlay of food insecurity and the HIV epidemic in urban informal areas are raising significant challenges for urban development processes (Vearey et al 2010).…”

Section: Food and Nutrition Security In South Africamentioning

confidence: 99%

Food security in South Africa—first steps toward a transdisciplinary approach

Drimie

McLachlan

2013

Food Sec.

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The Stellenbosch University Food Security Initiative provides a platform on which a range of research projects has been developed, spanning different faculties and departments, including the health sciences, agricultural sciences, engineering, and the social sciences. Drawing on a selection of these projects, some of which are published in a special section of this issue of Food Security, the paper highlights key emerging findings and their implications for future work in this field in South Africa. It incorporates a range of perspectives on food security in the country, highlighting different dimensions of the subject. The paper argues that a systemic approach is required to address food insecurity in South Africa, combining rigorous disciplinary and interdisciplinary research with effective approaches to research-policy linkages and social learning. The review concludes that such an approach should be institutionalised at Stellenbosch University to inform the emergence of a resilient food system for the region in the 21 st Century.

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Section: Food and Nutrition Security In South Africamentioning

confidence: 99%

Food security in South Africa—first steps toward a transdisciplinary approach

Drimie

McLachlan

2013

Food Sec.

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“…South Africa is associated with the largest population of people living with HIV globally, historically high levels of people moving between rural and urban areas in order to access employment (internal migration), and increasingly the mostly temporary movement of people across its bordersthe majority of whom move in search of improved livelihood opportunities (Collinson, Wolff, Tollman & Kahn, 2006;Lurie, 2006;UNAIDS, 2008;Landau & Wa Kabwe Segatti, 2009;Núñez Carrasco, Vearey & Drimie, 2011;Vearey, Palmary, Thomas & Carrasco, 2010). With almost 60% of the population estimated to be urban (Kok & Collinson, 2006), urbanisation has taken place at a faster rate in South Africa in comparison to neighbouring countries.…”

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South African HIV/AIDS programming overlooks migration, urban livelihoods, and informal workplaces

Vearey

Richter

Núñez

et al. 2011

African Journal of AIDS Research

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South Africa has the largest population of people living with HIV globally and is associated with high population mobility. The majority of migrants move in search of improved livelihood opportunities, and many who migrate (both internally and across borders) move into urban areas, often through peripheral informal settlements where HIV prevalence is shown to be double that of urban formal areas. While the relationship between migration and the spread of HIV is acknowledged as complex, the context of migration may place individuals at increased risk for acquiring HIV. Studies have demonstrated the long-wave impact of HIV and AIDS on livelihood activities and, more recently, on patterns of migration. Many migrants engage in livelihood strategies situated within the urban 'informal economy'; these informal workplaces are often overlooked in global and national legislation governing workplace responses to health and HIV and AIDS. This study draws on existing research and limited primary data to explore the implications of HIV/AIDS programming for diverse migrant groups labouring in informal workplaces in Johannesburg, South Africa. We describe three case studies: waste-pickers at a dumpsite in a peripheral urban informal settlement; barmen and cleaners working in inner-city hotels where sex is also sold; and, migrants engaged in informal livelihood activities who are also members of burial societies. Given the importance of varied informal livelihood activities for diverse migrant groups, particularly in urban areas of South Africa, we propose that the national HIV/AIDS response can and should engage with internal and cross-border migrants in informal workplaces - which is in line with the principle of universal access and will strengthen the national response. Especially, we point out the potential for burial societies to provide an entry point for HIV/AIDS programming that targets migrant groups involved in the informal economy of South African cities.

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“…23 Consequently, a significant proportion of the migrants experience difficult living and working conditions, low pay and regular dangers. 24 Along with the common difficulties, many of them are plunged into different grades of vulnerabilities.…”

Section: Post Migration and Structural Entrapment Of Nigeria's Urban mentioning

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Post-Migration Poverty Structures and Pentecostal Churches’ Social Services in Nigeria

Iheanacho¹,

Ughaerumba²

2015

RAH

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Many migrants who are pulled from their culture and traditional homes for the purpose of getting 'greener pastures' end up without realizing such motives. They become poorer, as they lose their old means of livelihood and, are also unable to find the desired better alternative. This is a ubiquitous experience in Nigerian cities. The teeming population of post-internal-migrant Nigerians makes the society vulnerable to low human development index and deviant behaviours. This is part of what makes poverty a social pathology of society. Apart from government programmes churches, especially the Pentecostal paradigms respond to poverty conditions of their followers through social services heralded in the wholesome presentation of the Christian message. In specifics, the churches' programmes towards poverty alleviation are the provision of education and healthcare facilities and services, Pentecostal empowerment, skills development through prosperity ministry and business seminars, charity and welfare schemes, religious networking of members, corporate investment and employment, loan facilities etc. These social services and social ministry contribute in no small measure to ameliorating poverty hassles of Christians, especially in the urban centres where the post migrant poor fall back on such facilities for survival and adaptation.

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Urban health in Johannesburg: The importance of place in understanding intra-urban inequalities in a context of migration and HIV

Cited by 58 publications

References 21 publications

Food security in South Africa—first steps toward a transdisciplinary approach

Food security in South Africa—first steps toward a transdisciplinary approach

South African HIV/AIDS programming overlooks migration, urban livelihoods, and informal workplaces

Post-Migration Poverty Structures and Pentecostal Churches’ Social Services in Nigeria

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