One impact of HIV and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa has been an increase in the number of poor, female-headed households. With particular reference to Kenya, this paper argues that under customary law, women’s rights to own and inherit property are often limited and secondary to those of men. As a result, women who become widows are disproportionately likely to lose their homes, land, and other assets, placing themselves and their children at risk of destitution and exploitation.

Last year, Camille Liu's future was looking good. He had met a woman, they fell in love and decided to move to his home country, Mauritius, and marry. But when Anna arrived on the tropical Indian Ocean island to accept her fiancé's proposal, bureaucratic issues stood in the way - one of them was an HIV test.

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Proposed reforms to Angola's Penal Code have divided opinion in the country about whether HIV-positive people who intentionally infect others with the virus should be punished.