1. South Africa HelpAge International;: Keywords;HIV/AIDS and Ageing: A Briefing Paper,2003
2. It looks at their role as primary care givers to orphans of HIV/AIDS, their own risks of infection, stigma and exclusion based on age, and thus the persistence of HIV/AIDS related poverty through time and across generations. The authors suggest that collaborative action is needed to ensure that the intergenerational nature and widespread socio-economic impacts of HIV/AIDS are recognised, addressed and prevented;With a focus on Africa and Asia, this paper outlines the specific effects of HIV/AIDS on older men and women, both as carers and as carriers
3. Women's rights NGOs in Africa have identified the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a critical factor in the exponential growth and devastating effects of the denial of women's inheritance rights. The number of young widows has increased drastically, staggering numbers of girl orphans are now household heads, and older women must raise orphaned grandchildren. They are thus dispossessed of land, home, and property at the point which they are most in need of their means of production. Description: With partner NGOs, the International Human Rights Law Group has undertaken international awareness-raising campaigns through the UN Commission on Human Rights and global e-mail letter-writing campaigns, along with research, local advocacy and support for inheritance rights activities (outreach, legislative advocacy, legal services). A major goal is to support local NGO efforts and to bring global attention to women's inheritance rights as an issue in need of specific interventions in an expanded response to the AIDS crisis. Lessons learned: Fuelled by the AIDS epidemic, the denial of inheritance rights to women and girls has an acute negative impact on household poverty, violence against women, and the general socio-economic status of widows, daughters and their households. Without detracting from the importance of an interrelated approach to responding to the AIDS crisis;M John-Smith;The Struggle for Women's Inheritance Rights in Africa: A Critical Component in an Expanded Response to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic'. Presentation at the International Conference on AIDS,2002