HIV & AIDS

Food and nutrition insecurity, HIV/AIDS, and gendered vulnerability in Buhaya, Tanzania

Download PDF

---

This article draws on socio-cultural anthropological research conducted in a rural village in Buhaya, Tanzania, and focuses on how food and nutrition insecurity and gendered vulnerability fuel HIV/AIDS. Poverty, land insecurity and agricultural decline have increased in Buhaya, affecting men and women. However, women are the primary farmers and providers of household food and nutrition security and are more limited by their access to land and other resources including capital, economic livelihood alternatives and education. Poor women with dependents who lack adequate access to land and the ability to provide household food and nutrition security may engage in poverty-induced transactional sex as a means to secure daily food for their household. In the process they make their children, themselves and their partners vulnerable, increasing the likelihood for HIV/AIDS transmission on a larger scale. This article encourages the development and implementation of policies which acknowledge the crucial roles that women play in food and nutrition insecurity, the roles that food and nutrition insecurity play in fueling the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and gendered vulnerability.

---

Detail Information

Publication Information

: African Journal of Gender and Women Studies., 2020

Number of Pages

-

ISBN

-

Language

English

ISSN

2516-9831

Subject(s)

Food Security
Women farmers
Tanzania
Land insecurity

Description

-

Citation

Githinji, V. 2020, 'Food and nutrition insecurity, HIV/AIDS, and gendered vulnerability in Buhaya, Tanzania', African Journal of Gender and Women Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 001-008.

Other Information

Type

Article

Part Of Series

-

DOI Identifier

-

Related Publications

Comments

Leave Your Comments on this Publication

---