HIV / AIDS and Food Insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa

Barrett P. Brenton is an associate professor of anthropology and associate director of the Center for Global Development at St. John’s University in New York. As a nutritional anthropologist he has conducted fieldwork in Peru, Ecuador, Kenya, Zambia, South Africa, and in Native American communities across the U.S.  His research interests include the paradox of childhood hunger and obesity, HIV/AIDS and food insecurity, and food policy related to the use of genetically modified organisms in sub-Saharan Africa. For nearly 10 years he was co-editor of the international journal Ecology of Food and Nutrition.John Mazzeo is an assistant professor of anthropology and is affiliated with the Masters in Public Health Program at DePaul University.  His research interests include livelihood systems, food security, health and HIV/AIDS and he has conducted fieldwork in Zimbabwe, Haiti and the Bahamas.  He work in Zimbabwe, between 2004 and 2006, examined the coping strategies of rural households to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.Alexander Rödlach is an assistant professor in anthropology and psychiatry at Creighton University in Omaha. He studies how cultural understandings of diseases, particularly HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe, shape perceptions of and access to health services. Further, he explores the health needs of migrants and refugees, especially Guatemalan Mayans living in Omaha. In addition, he assists a non-profit organization assessing the long-term impact of their services provided to refugees. He is the author of "Witches, Westerners, and HIV." His most recent publication is "Religious Institutions and Volunteering to Provide Care to People Living with HIV and AIDS in Zimbabwe."

• 1. Introduction: Anthropologists Confront HIV/AIDS and Food Insecurity in sub-Saharan AfricaJohn Mazzeo, Alexander Rödlach, and Barrett P. Brenton 2. Toward a Critical Biosocial Model of Ecohealth in Southern Africa: The HIV/AIDS and Nutrition Insecurity SyndemicMerrill Singer3.  Food Insecurity and Maternal-to-Child Transmission of HIV and AIDS in sub-Saharan AfricaDaniel W. Sellen and Craig Hadley4. Safe Infant Feeding in Lesotho in the Era of HIV/AIDSLena Kroeker and Alyx Beckwith5. “If I Take My Pills I’ll Go Hungry”: The Choice between Economic Security and HIV/AIDS Treatment in Grahamstown, South AfricaChaunetta Jones6. Poverty, Nutrition, and a Cultural Model of Managing HIV/AIDS among Women in Nairobi, KenyaToni J. Copeland7. Cycles of Poverty, Food Insecurity, and Psychosocial Stress among AIDS-Care Volunteers in Urban EthiopiaKenneth Maes and Selamawit Shifferaw8. Complexities of the “Transactional Sex” Model: Nonproviding Men, Self-Providing Women, and HIV Risk in Rural MalawiJanneke Verheijen9. Livelihood Demands and the Spread of Aids: The case of MalawiMike Njalayawo Mtika10. “Twelve Years on”: HIV and AIDS and Livelihoods in ZambiaFiona Samuels and Michael Drinkwater11. The Double Threat of HIV/AIDS and Drought on Rural Household Food Security in Southeastern ZimbabweJohn Mazzeo12. Contested Strategies for Defining and Confronting Food Insecurity and HIV/AIDS in Zambia: Rejection of GM Food Aid during the 2002–03 Food CrisisBarrett P. Brenton13. Food, Health, Development, and HIV/AIDS in a Remote Area of Southern AfricaRobert K. Hitchcock and Wayne A. Babchuk14. “Aids is in the Food”: Zimbabweans’ Association between Nutrition and HIV/AIDS and their Potential for Addressing Food Insecurity and HIV/AIDSAlexander Rödlach