To have and to hold
Category
Assets and Property Rights, HIV and AIDS
Publication Subtitle
Women's property and inheritance rights in the context of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
Publication year
2004
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Does women’s lack of property rights increases household poverty and their vulnerability to HIV infection? Would securing these rights mitigate the impoverishing impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic? This paper seeks to answer these questions and further examine the links between HIV/AIDS and women’s property rights.
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