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ADaPT Project

AIDS, Demographic and Poverty Trends

This ESRC funded project ended in March 2010. It aimed to improve understanding of demographic and poverty dynamics in an African population with high AIDS mortality and assess the implications for social policy.

The project analyzed two panel datasets from South Africa -the KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study (KIDS) and the Africa Centre Demographic Information System (ACDIS) - supplemented by data from official inquiries and qualitative studies to:

  1. improve the measurement of poverty dynamics;

  2. understand better the impact of deaths of working-age adults on household welfare, households’ responses, and the determinants of differential vulnerability and resilience;

  3. examine the effects of demographic change, including the AIDS epidemic, on poverty dynamics across the life course in South Africa;

  4. assess social policy interventions designed to mitigate impact and their distributional implications across the life course.

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The project investigated the impact of HIV/AIDS on the welfare of the poor in order to widen debate on policies intended to mitigate impact to encompass longer-term consequences. High AIDS mortality affects the life course of individuals and households, undermines investment in human capital, and has long-term social, economic, and fiscal implications.

The ADaPT Project represents a partnership between Department of Population Studies at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and two parts of the University of KwaZulu-Natal , the School of Development Studies and the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, South Africa.

For more information: ADaPT in the news

A listing of research outputs from the project is available on its ESRC award web page.

To download the presentations from the dissemination workshop co-sponsored by the Department of Social Development and School of Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal in Pretoria on 18th May 2010, please click here.