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Products to Serve an HIV/AIDS-Affected Market: Savings (USAID Microfinance and HIV/AIDS Note 4)

This microNOTE explores how savings services can help households build up their asset base to prepare for the economic shocks brought about by HIV/AIDS. It offers examples of savings products, describes the key questions to ask before attempting to manage deposits in HIV/AIDS affected markets, and lists some of the challenges to providing savings services. (Prepared by Lisa Parrott of Save the Children, June 2008.)