An increase in the frequency, complexity and magnitude of natural disasters
and epidemics in southern Africa, combined with socio-economic
shocks, have conspired to exacerbate the vulnerability of communities
across the region. Extreme weather conditions, influenced
in part by climate change, are also undermining already low-levels of
agricultural production. These factors, compounded of course by still
stratospheric rates of HIV infection, have increased mortality and morbidity
rates, malnutrition and the number of orphans and vulnerable
children (OVC), and have sped up the depletion of household asset
bases...
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