Facing up to AIDS :
Facing up to AIDS : the socio-economic impact in southern Africa /
edited by Sholto Cross and Alan Whiteside
- Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1996, c1993
- xii, 331 p : ill. ; 22 cm
Previous ed.: New York: St. Martin's; Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1993
Includes index
Facing up to AIDS is a novel and incisive study of a global plague which continues to threaten to engulf South Africa at this crucial moment in its history. Economists, demographers and health planners present a range of new methods of understanding the likely course of the disease, drawn from the most recent research and thinking by social scientists on the relationship between epidemic disease, economic growth and human resources. South Africa presents a unique opportunity for understanding AIDS, combining as it does Third World problems with a sophisticated infrastructure: the models of demographic projection and economic linkages which are explored here will be of major relevance for examining the socio-economic impact of AIDS in a range of countries in Asia and Latin America. Until medical science comes up with a miracle vaccine, the modification of behaviour is the only defence, and the essays in this volume make a powerful case for putting further resources into the research needed to bring this about.
0333669894 0333669908 (pbk.) 0312091060 (USA)
92-2489
GB 96-Y4702
AIDS (Disease)--Africa, Southern
AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Africa, Southern
AIDS (Disease)--Forecasting--Africa, Southern
RA644.A25 / F332 1996
362.196979200968
Previous ed.: New York: St. Martin's; Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1993
Includes index
Facing up to AIDS is a novel and incisive study of a global plague which continues to threaten to engulf South Africa at this crucial moment in its history. Economists, demographers and health planners present a range of new methods of understanding the likely course of the disease, drawn from the most recent research and thinking by social scientists on the relationship between epidemic disease, economic growth and human resources. South Africa presents a unique opportunity for understanding AIDS, combining as it does Third World problems with a sophisticated infrastructure: the models of demographic projection and economic linkages which are explored here will be of major relevance for examining the socio-economic impact of AIDS in a range of countries in Asia and Latin America. Until medical science comes up with a miracle vaccine, the modification of behaviour is the only defence, and the essays in this volume make a powerful case for putting further resources into the research needed to bring this about.
0333669894 0333669908 (pbk.) 0312091060 (USA)
92-2489
GB 96-Y4702
AIDS (Disease)--Africa, Southern
AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Africa, Southern
AIDS (Disease)--Forecasting--Africa, Southern
RA644.A25 / F332 1996
362.196979200968