Widows, AIDs, Health and Human Rights in Africa: Case Study from Tanzania

Struensee, Susan von

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“…Access was always only through a male relative, normally the husband, father, brother, and/or uncle (Shezongo-Macmillan 2005). However, these safeguards may be at risk due to reports of increased property grabbing (von Struensee 2004). For example, Kajoba (2002), in a study undertaken in a village community in Zambia's Chibombo District, found that women complained that they lost their land after their husbands' death and in some cases they were told to vacate the village and go back to their natal homes.…”

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“…The widow could possibly be protected from loss of land if many other adults and children live and depend on that land beside the widow. It is conceivable that widows having more children to feed are more protected against opportunistic behavior of others (von Struensee, 2004). On the other hand, more resident adults brings the risk that one or more of them could seek to alienate some or all of the homestead's land from the widow.…”

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Widows’ Land Security in the Era of HIV/AIDS: Panel Survey Evidence from Zambia

Chapoto¹,

Jayne²,

Mason³

2011

Economic Development and Cultural Change

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In areas of Africa hard hit by HIV/AIDS, there are growing concerns that many women lose access to land after the death of their husbands. However, there remains a dearth of quantitative evidence on the proportion of widows who lose access to their deceased husband's land, whether they lose all or part of that land, and whether there are factors specific to the widow, her family, or the broader community that influence her ability to maintain rights to land. This study examines these issues using average treatment effects models with propensity score matching applied to a nationally representative panel data of 5,342 rural households surveyed in 2001 and 2004. Results are highly variable, with roughly a third of households incurring the death of a male household head controlling less than 50% of the land they had prior to their husband's death, while over a quarter actually controlled as much or even more land than while their husbands were alive. Widows who were in relatively wealthy households prior to their husband's death lose proportionately more land than widows in households that were relatively poor. Older widows and widows related to the local headman enjoy greater land security. Women in matrilineal inheritance areas were no less likely to lose land than women in patrilineal areas.

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Section: Land Inheritance Patterns In Zambiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Social Capital Factorsmentioning

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Widows’ Land Security in the Era of HIV/AIDS: Panel Survey Evidence from Zambia

Chapoto¹,

Jayne²,

Mason³

2011

Economic Development and Cultural Change

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“…In many sub-Saharan African countries, a man's property, including his wife, passes to his adult sons or brothers after his death. [ 37 - 39 ] The fate of African widows ranges from disinheritance and forceful deprivation of property to the mandatory observance of harmful rituals. One of these traditional rituals is widow inheritance, a practice whereby the widow agrees to marry her husband's younger brother to continue as a member of the family.…”

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Understanding the Scourge of HIV/AIDS in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Inungu

Karl

2006

Journal of the International AIDS Society

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Sub-Saharan Africa is the part of the world that has been hit hardest by the HIV epidemic. To fight the spread of HIV in the continent, it is necessary to know and effectively address the factors that drive the spread of HIV. The purpose of this article is to review the factors associated with the spread of the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa and to propose 6 essential activities, which we refer to by the acronym "ESCAPER," to help curb the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa.

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Widows, Widowhood, and Society in Africa

Fasanmi¹,

Ayivor²

2021

The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies

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Widows, AIDs, Health and Human Rights in Africa: Case Study from Tanzania

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Widows’ Land Security in the Era of HIV/AIDS: Panel Survey Evidence from Zambia

Widows’ Land Security in the Era of HIV/AIDS: Panel Survey Evidence from Zambia

Understanding the Scourge of HIV/AIDS in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Widows, Widowhood, and Society in Africa

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