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This report is based on interviews with managers and supervisors of care teams; carers on the staff of AIDS Support Organizations; community volunteers; primary carers within families; and individuals with expertise in this field. The report identifies who the carers are within the family and at community level. It then identifies the stressors associated with their care-giving roles. The quality of care they are able to provide and their…
This fact sheet addresses how HIV/AIDS have significantly increased the care burden for many women. Poverty and poor public services have also combined with AIDS to turn the care burden for women into a crisis with far-reaching social, health and economic consequences. The term 'care economy' is sometimes used to describe the many tasks carried out mostly by women and girls at home such as cooking, cleaning, fetching water and many other…
This article explores how the role of parents is so much more intensive, extensive, and different in the context of many developing country epidemics vis à vis epidemics in developed countries, and whether and to what extent the physical and mental health of older AIDS parents may decline from their close involvement with their ill children, relative to parents who do not suffer this unfortunate set of events. This article hypothesizes that…
Unpaid care work is a major contributing factor to gender inequality and women's poverty. The amount and intensity of unpaid care work in Southern Africa has been exacerbated by the HIV and AIDS pandemic. Mainland Southern Africa is said to be the most affected region in the world. Southern Africa has less than 5% of the world's population and yet has the highest rates of HIV and AIDS infection. The worst affected countries include…
The full report investigates women's status in the context of globalization from the mid 1980s through the late 1990s. The report shows that only eight nations have successfully met global agreements to achieve both gender equality in secondary education enrollment and at least a 30 per cent share of women's seats in parliament. This document is an extract from Chapter One of the report, which focuses on Empowerment and Economics. Although…
A two-day brainstorm workshop was organized to discuss a new proposal for a collaborative programme between ILO and UNIFEM on the issue of the unpaid domestic care work carried out primarily by women (care economy) in the context of HIV/AIDS and situated within the larger framework of the world of work. The workshop was designed to focus on the key elements of the programme, and to achieve a balance of information sharing and presentations…