title: "At my age I should be sitting under that tree": the impact of AIDS on Tanzanian lakeshore communities.
abstract: In 1992, the author led a participatory rural appraisal (PRA) exercise for a community fisheries project in Kagera region, on the western side of Lake Victoria, Tanzania.  The PRA team visited four settlements: the prime harbor settlement on Kerebe Island; N'toro beach, in Bukoba district, near the Ugandan border; Chamkwikwi landing site in Muleba district; and Buzirayombo bay settlement in Biharamulo district in the south.  This article draws on that research, to give an outsider's analysis of the ways in which AIDS was changing livelihoods in poor fishing and farming communities.  On the lakeshore and islands, adults were falling ill and dying.  This loss of men and women in their prime was causing major economic and social stresses for the single parents, grandparents, and orphans whom the authors met.  They showed resilience and adaptability in the face of this threat to their already precarious livelihoods.  The article ends by suggesting ways in which development policy makers and practitioners should support livelihoods in the era of AIDS.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Appleton
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; D000349:Africa; D017954:Africa South of the Sahara; D000351:Africa, Eastern; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004194:Disease; D004467:Economics; D005843:Geography; D015658:HIV Infections; D011153:Population; D012106:Research; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013636:Tanzania; D014777:Virus Diseases
keywords: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Africa; Africa South Of The Sahara; Case Studies; Community; Developing Countries; Diseases; Eastern Africa; Economic Factors; English Speaking Africa; Geographic Factors; Hiv Infections; Macroeconomic Factors; Population; Research Methodology; Residence Characteristics; Socioeconomic Factors; Spatial Distribution; Studies; Tanzania; Viral Diseases