# 73: HIV/AIDS and Food Security
January 1, 2005
The impact of HIV and AIDS on food production and rural households in sub-Saharan Africa is undeniable. AIDS generally hits people in their most productive years, between the ages of 15 and 49. People become too sick to farm and feed themselves and their families. Significant losses in food production also result from deaths in families, and time taken to attend funerals and other mourning rituals.
- Community Responses to HIV/AIDS
- Improved Cookstoves Make Life Easier for Women
- Choosing Crops for Drought-Prone Areas
- Women, Property and Inheritance
- Cereal Banks can Contribute to Food Security
- The Importance of Security Crops
- Share Farming Knowledge with Your Children
- Misconceptions and Acceptance: People Living with HIV/AIDS Need Love and Compassion
- Mummy Cheetah and her Babies: A Story to Help Orphaned Children Talk
- Story Ideas to Help Rural Communities Cope with Labour Shortages and Other Impacts of HIV and AIDS
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