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AIDS and the ecology of poverty /

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Combines economics and biology to explain the spread of HIV/AIDS and offers a critique of AIDS policy. Drawing on scientific evidence, this book demonstrates that HIV/AIDS cannot be stopped without understanding the ecology of poverty. It presents solutions to the health problems that promote the sp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stillwaggon, Eileen, 1949-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
AIDS (Disease)
Poor > Diseases.
Poverty.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > prevention & control
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > epidemiology
Poverty
Sida.
Pauvres > Maladies.
Pauvreté.
poverty.
MEDICAL > AIDS & HIV.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > AIDS & HIV.
Poor > Diseases
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Perspective
  • Biological synergies and disease
  • HIV-specific synergies
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Dualism in Latin America and the Caribbean
  • The context of HIV/AIDS in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
  • Racial metaphors
  • Individual bias in methodology
  • HIV/AIDS policies
  • Workplace interventions for STD and HIV/AIDS prevention
  • Opportunistic investments for health and human development.