HIV/AIDS has a severe impact on food security, affecting all of its dimensions: availability, stability, access, utilization. FAO recognizes that HIV/AIDS is a determining factor for, as well as a consequence of, food insecurity. Although the relationships among gender, food security and rural...

Using household data from Northern Zambia, this article looks at HIV/AIDS impacts on different aspects of people's access to food. The findings draw particular attention to the variances in vulnerability among households burdened by illness and orphans that are headed by men, women and the...

The aim of this paper is to apply exploratory techniques in order to uncover vulnerability dimensions that characterize clusters of households within the Zambian dataset. Specifically, our purpose was to discover latent factors and to build a typology of households according to the...

While HIV and AIDS have been described as a “disease of poverty” (see for example, Afrol News, 2002), empirical studies examining the relationship between poverty and the risk of HIV infection or AIDS mortality report mixed findings (Beegle, De Weerdt and Dercon 2008; Gillespie, Kadiyala and...

According to the latest estimates by UNAIDS (2006: 8) there are about 38.6 million people living with HIV worldwide. Within the last five years, there has been a growing recognition that HIV/AIDS is not only a global public health threat, but also a major humanitarian crisis that challenges both...

The objective of this paper is twofold: it aims at evaluating the quality of the consumption module in the ACDIS data, addressing measurement error and missing information. Estimates of household consumption are in fact sensitive to both issues (Ardington, Lam et al. 2006). Secondly, it aims at...