Claiming Property and Inheritance Rights for HIV-affected Women - Zimbabwe

As a woman with deteriorating health due to HIV, Phillipa Marisa, 60, used to agonize over the legacy that she would leave her children. Since her husband's death from AIDS she had become dispossessed from her property in Hopley Farm, Harare and had fierce arguments with her in-laws. Yet she found support and solace in a programme that connects HIV-affected women with their property and inheritance rights, and with each other. Supported by UN Women, the organization Women and Law in Southern Africa Research and Education Trust (WLSA), has been working to empower women living with HIV and AIDS by educating them on their property rights. Read more at: http://www.unwomen.org/2012/06/in-zimbabwe-women-with-hiv-leading-chang…