The role of gender, socio-economic and epidemiological factors in the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The widespread prevalence of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa adversely affects millions of households. In recent years, microfinance has been proposed as a strategy to help the households of microentrepreneurs respond to the negative economic impacts of HIV/AIDS. This attention to the potential role of microfinance builds upon earlier research that shows that microfinance institutions (MFIs) that charge commercial rates of interest and use sound business practices can become operationally self-sustainable and help improve the lives of the poor and vulnerable nonpoor. This type of MFI generally offers small loans, often combined with savings services. An MFI may also offer business management training, health and nutrition education, and other types of services. This brief presents findings from a study conducted in Zimbabwe that sought to better understand the relationship between a microfinance program, Zambuko Trust, and how microentrepreneurs’ households cope with the impact of HIV/AIDS. The study also examined how HIV/AIDS is affecting Zambuko’s operations and what MFIs can do to lessen the impact of HIV/AIDS on their clients and operations.

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The Role of Forest Resources in the Strategies of Rural Communities Coping with the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa

Innovations as Key to the Green Revolution in Africa ◽

10.1007/978-90-481-2543-2_132 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 1303-1310

Author(s):

J. B. Kung’u

Keyword(s):

Rural Communities ◽

Forest Resources ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Aids Epidemic ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

Hiv Aids

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Modeling HIV/AIDS co infection with malaria and tuberculosis: the role of treatment and counseling

International Journal of Applied Mathematical Research ◽

10.14419/ijamr.v8i1.5421 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Mark O.Okongo

Keyword(s):

Causes Of Death ◽

Opportunistic Infections ◽

Deterministic Model ◽

Dual Infection ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Effective Counseling ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

The Stability ◽

Hiv Aids

HIV/AIDS remains one of the leading causes of death in the world with its effects most devastating in Sub Saharan Africa due to its dual infection with opportunistic infections especially malaria and tuberculosis. This study presents a co infection deterministic model defined by a system of ordinary deferential equations for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. The HIV/AIDS only model is analyzed to determine the conditions for the stability of the equilibria points and assess the role of treatment and counseling in con-trolling the spread of the infections. This study shows that effective counseling reduces the value of the reproduction number for HIV/AIDS (RH) to less than unity eliminating the HIV/AIDS problem. Numerical simulations show that applying anti-retroviral treatment (ARV’S) without effective counseling increases the value of RH, worsening the HIV/AIDS problem, however ARV treatment coupled with effective counseling reduces the value of RH to a level below one eliminating the disease. The study further shows that when the proportion of those receiving ARV treatment without effective counseling increases, the value of RH also increases to a level above one. However effective counseling maintains the value of RH below unity therefore strategies for the control of HIV/AIDS should emphasize counseling and not only treatment.

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