1. HIV/AIDS and Failed Development
- Author:
- Joe Collins and Bill Rau
- Publication Date:
- 03-2000
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Africa Policy Information Center
- Abstract:
- HIV/AIDS continues to cut into the fabric of African households and societies. It is not uncommon to hear that a quarter to a third of the adult population in several african countries are HIV infected. Against this reality of a rapidly spreading epidemic, some two decades of prevention interventions have met with but limited success. Whatever successes there might be are not to be lightly dismissed. The reasons for those successes, however, are not well understood and thus not readily applicable elsewhere. To date, most prevention efforts have focused on increasing individual awareness about risks of transmission and promoting individual risk reduction through a variety of means.
- Topic:
- Development, Human Welfare, and Third World
- Political Geography:
- Africa