- Prolonged morbidity but particularly premature mortality may alter social relations (including institutions that govern access to and inheritance of land).
- Prolonged morbidity and mortality would contribute to disposal of land (to cater for care, treatment, and funerals).
- Thus this is a double-edged sword -- on the one side access and utilisation among households and individuals would be affected, and on the other it would affect land planning and administration at various levels of bureaucracy.
- These changes, particularly as they relate to individuals and households would have both gender and age dimensions.
- In sum, HIV related mortality would alter land entitlement* positions held by people of different age and gender.
- Entitlement* is the possibility to make legitimate claims, i.e. claims based on rights. It is a function of power and law. Power entails opportunity to access and/or actual command. Law (Common or Customary) legitimises and hence protects in case of dispute.
- Thus the analysis of the impact of HIV on entitlement to land cannot and should not ignore cultural, legal, political, and other social attributes that affects the dynamics of entitlement positions in both time and space.
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