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

Title
The socioeconomic dimensions of HIV/AIDS in Africa : challenges, opportunities, and misconceptions / edited by David E. Sahn.
Publication
Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, c2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Sahn, David E.
  • United Nations University
Description
xix, 343 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • 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
  • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
  • HIV Infections
  • Africa South of the Sahara
Note
  • "Published in cooperation with the United Nations University."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
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 : 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 Sub-Saharan 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.
ISBN
  • 9780801476938 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0801476933 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2010033351
OCLC
  • ocn617604038
  • 617604038
  • SCSB-8855167
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries