The socioeconomic dimensions of HIV/AIDS in Africa
Subtitle: challenges, opportunities, and misconceptions
By: edited by David E. Sahn
Contributors: United Nations University
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780801476938
Subjects: HIV infections; AIDS (Disease)
Description: 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 million new infections occured globally. Sub-Saharan Africa remains the epicenter of the suffering, with around two-thirds of infected individuals worldwide found there, and a disproportionate number of deaths and new infections.

For years there have been widespread and concerted efforts to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, identify a cure, and understand and mitigate the deleterious social and economic ramifications of the disease. Despite these efforts, and some apparent successes, there is still a long way to go in terms of altering behaviors in order to realize the objective of dramatic reductions in the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa. The authors in this volume examine the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa, which persists despite major strides in averting deaths due to antiretroviral therapy. They tell an important story of the distinct nature of the disease and its socioeconomic implications. --Book Jacket.
Notes: "Published in cooperation with the United Nations University."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: HIV/AIDS, economic growth, inequality / Markus Haacker; title: Governing a world with HIV and AIDS : an unfinished success story / Alex de Waal; title: Microeconomic perspectives on the impacts of HIV/AIDS / Kathleen Beegle, Markus Goldstein, and Harsha Thirumurthy; title: 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; title: The relationship between HIV infection and education : an analysis of six Sub-Saharan African countries / Damien de Walque and Rachel Kline; title: Back to basics : gender, social norms, and the AIDS epidemic in Africa / Susan Cotts Watkins; title: The fight against AIDS in the larger context : the end of "AIDS exceptionalism" / Roger England; title: Prevention failure : the ballooning entitlement burden of U.S. global AIDS treatment spending and what to do about it / Mead Over; title: HIV prevention in Africa : what has been learned? / Peter Glick; title: Treating ourselves to trouble? : the impact of HIV treatment in Africa : lessons from the industrial world / Elizabeth Pisani.