The socioeconomic dimensions of HIV/AIDS in Africa : challenges, opportunities, and misconceptions /

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Since the 1980s HIV/AIDS has occupied a singular position because of the rapidly emergent threat and devastation the disease has caused, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. New infections continue to create a formidable challenge to households, communities, and health systems: last year alone, 2.7 m...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: United Nations University
Other Authors: Sahn, David E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2010.
Series:Africa series (Zed Press) ; 2nd v.
Subjects:
AIDS (Disease) > Social aspects > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
AIDS (Disease) > Economic aspects > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
HIV infections > Economic aspects > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
HIV infections > Social aspects > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
HIV Infections > economics
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > economics
HIV Infections > epidemiology
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > epidemiology
Socioeconomic Factors
Sida > Aspect social > Afrique subsaharienne.
Sida > Aspect économique > Afrique subsaharienne.
Infections à VIH > Aspect économique > Afrique subsaharienne.
Infections à VIH > Aspect social > Afrique subsaharienne.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
AIDS (Disease) > Economic aspects
AIDS (Disease) > Social aspects
HIV infections > Economic aspects
HIV infections > Social aspects
Aids > Afrika.
Africa South of the Sahara > epidemiology
Sub-Saharan Africa
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • HIV/AIDS, economic growth, inequality / Markus Haacker
  • Governing a world with HIV and AIDS : an unfinished success story / Alex de Waal
  • Microeconomic perspectives on the impacts of HIV/AIDS / Kathleen Beegle, Markus Goldstein, and Harsha Thirumurthy
  • The AIDS epidemic, nutrition, food security and livelihoods in the pre-ART and ART era : review of evidence in Africa / Suneetha Kadiyala and Antony Chapoto
  • The relationship between HIV infection and education : an analysis of six Sub-Saharan African countries / Damien de Walque and Rachel Kline
  • Back to basics : gender, social norms, and the AIDS epidemic in Africa / Susan Cotts Watkins
  • The fight against AIDS in the larger context : the end of "AIDS exceptionalism" / Roger England
  • Prevention failure : the ballooning entitlement burden of U.S. global AIDS treatment spending and what to do about it / Mead Over
  • HIV prevention in Africa : what has been learned? / Peter Glick
  • Treating ourselves to trouble? : the impact of HIV treatment in Africa : lessons from the industrial world / Elizabeth Pisani.

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