Summary 15 years after its first democratic election, South Africa is in the midst of a profound
health transition that is characterised by a quadruple burden of communicable, non …

Understanding the intricacies of gender and migration can result in programs and policies
that enhance the benefits and decrease the economic and social costs for female migrants …

In some parts of South Africa, more than one in three people are HIV positive. Love in the
Time of AIDS explores transformations in notions of gender and intimacy to try to understand …

Background HIV infection and intimate-partner violence share a common risk environment in
much of southern Africa. The aim of the Intervention with Microfinance for AIDS and Gender …

Objectives. We sought to obtain evidence about the scope of women's empowerment and
the mechanisms underlying the significant reduction in intimate partner violence …

Although women form a large and increasing proportion of international migrants, women's
mobility has generally been overlooked in the literature. Quantifying and characterizing …

Between 1990 and 2005, HIV prevalence rates in South Africa jumped from less than 1% to
around 29%. Important scholarship has demonstrated how racialized structures entrenched …

In many rural regions of develo** countries, natural resource dependency means
changes in climate patterns hold tremendous potential to impact livelihoods. When …

While much descriptive research has documented positive associations between social
capital and a range of economic, social and health outcomes, there have been few …

Aim: To examine the hypothesis that circular labour migrants who become seriously ill while
living away from home return to their rural homes to convalesce and possibly to die …