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Disability benefits and workers with HIV/AIDS: Coverage issues and challenges in the United Republic of Tanzania

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This paper explores the effective non‐availability of disability/invalidity benefits to formal sector employees with HIV/AIDS in the United Republic of Tanzania. The legal difficulty of establishing a direct connection between HIV/AIDS and employment injury and occupational diseases present a challenge to social security institutions and schemes which are simultaneously trying to come to grips with the mounting problems of the shrinkage of the formal sector and low coverage. Remedial policy responses are proposed. These identify the statutory and legal adjustments needed both to ensure convergence of eligibility criteria for invalidity benefit claims among the concerned institutions, and to ensure that qualifying conditions are both consistent and in line with contemporary approaches to disbility. The suggested adjustments would simplify and clarify eligibility criteria in cases of invalidity involving existing scheme members, potentially also allowing for a future expansion of benefit coverage better to reflect labour market realities.

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  • Tulia Ackson, 2008. "Disability benefits and workers with HIV/AIDS: Coverage issues and challenges in the United Republic of Tanzania," International Social Security Review, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 61(4), pages 75-94, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:intssr:v:61:y:2008:i:4:p:75-94
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-246X.2008.00324.x
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