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| Title: | | Livelihood risk from HIV in semi-arid tropics of rural Andhra Pradesh  |
| Authors: | | Gandhi, B. Valentine Joseph Serquiña Bantilan, M. Cynthia Parthasarathy, Devanathan |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Research paper / UNU-WIDER 2008.49 |
| Abstract: | | This paper discusses the livelihood dynamics in the fragile landscape of the semi-arid tropics (SAT) of Andhra Pradesh. SAT is home to the poorest of the poor who live in conditions of persistent drought, subsistence agriculture and poor access to markets. This paper is a case study focusing particularly on labour migration, its role in influencing the health risk behaviour of migrants and in the spread of the HIV epidemic among SAT rural households. The most vulnerable population in these drought-prone regions are the migrant labourers, and their vulnerability is influenced by three major factors - the vulnerability and unstable productivity in the degraded and marginal landscape, the caste system that has traditionally kept them backward and vulnerable, and experiences in the external. |
| Subjects: | | labour migration HIV risk behaviour agriculture health semi-arid tropics |
| JEL: | | I19 O5 Q19 |
| ISBN: | | 978-92-9230-097-5 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | WIDER Research Papers, United Nations University (UNU)
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