POVERTY AND HIV

POVERTY AND HIV/AIDS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA 07/13/2006 05:20 PM. Issues Paper No. 27. POVERTY AND HIV/AIDS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA. Desmond Cohen TABLE OF CONTENTS. POVERTY AND HIV/AIDS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA. HIV PREVALENCE -- THE EVIDENCE. POVERTY AS PROCESS. POVERTY and HIV Infection Coping with HIV and AIDS. Intergenerational Impacts of HIV. CONCLUSIONS. POVERTY AND HIV/AIDS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA. There are two bi-causal relationships which need to be understood by those involved in policy and programme development. These are: the relationship between POVERTY and HIV/AIDS -- which includes the spatial and socio-economic distribution of HIV infection in African populations, and consideration of POVERTY -related factors which affect household and community coping capacities; and the relationship between HIV/AIDS and POVERTY -- understanding the processes through which the experience of HIV and AIDS.

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