TITLE: The Care Economy: Gender and the Silent AIDS Crisis in Southern
Africa
AUTHOR: S. Urdang
DATE: 2006
PUBLISHER: Journal of Southern African Studies, Volume 32, Number 1
This article considers the impact of AIDS on women’s roles and responsibilities
within the household ‘care economy.’ It emphasizes that all interventions aimed
at reversing the epidemic need to take into account the excessive work-load that
members of the household, usually women, shoulder in responding to the needs of
sick family members. Most notably, gender equality and care economy issues need
to be identified by development programmes. There is also a need to implement
policies that focus on issues such as treatment, prevention, education, economic
empowerment and violence against women. The article argues that unless the care
economy and the relations of gender inequality within the household are included
in the design, implementation and evaluation of such interventions, results will
be compromised.
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