Author: David E. BloomPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Economic Implications of AIDS in Asia
Author: David E. BloomPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Asia's Economies and the Challenge of AIDS
Author: David E. BloomPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Economics of HIV and AIDS
Author: David E. BloomPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This book fills an important gap by identifying the economic roots of HIV and AIDS in South and South East Asia. The Economics of HIV and AIDS contains case studies from India, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Four of these are based on primary data and are original. Each uses common economic concepts to assess the costs of HIV and AIDS and explores the impact of HIV and AIDS on economic growth, and the economic roots of the two diseases. This book provides a new perspective on the economic impact of the HIV and AIDS epidemic by emphasizing the class differentials both in the vulnerability of social groups and their access to services.
HIV and AIDS in South Asia
Author: Markus HaackerPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821378260
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This book offers an original perspective on AIDS as a development issue in South Asia, a region with a heterogeneous epidemic and estimated national HIV prevalence rates of up to 0.5 percent. The analysis challenges the common perception of HIV and AIDS which has been shaped to a large extent by analysis of HIV and AIDS in other regions with much higher prevalence rates. Three risks to development are associated with HIV and AIDS in South Asia: the risk of escalation of concentrated epidemics, the economic welfare costs, and the fiscal costs of scaling up treatment.
AIDS and Asia
Author: Maggie BlackPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The Socio-economic Impact of HIV at the Household Level in Asia: A regional analysis of the impact on women and girls
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9789746803076
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Socio-economic Impact of HIV at the Household Level in Asia: A regional analysis
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9789746803069
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
The findings of these multi-country studies point to the need for urgent policy action. They demonstrate that as the epidemic matures it has significant and lasting impact on the ability of households to cope with the loss of family members, the loss of income, and the loss of educational opportunities, particularly for girls who are pulled out of school to care for sick and dying family members. Moreover, the study points to the fact that even concentrated epidemics have wide ranging impacts on PLHIV and their households, effectively multiplying the socioeconomic effect as it erodes the fabric of HIV-affected households.
Facing up to AIDS
Author: Sholto CrossPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349249300
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
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.
Does the AIDS Epidemic Really Threaten Economic Growth?
Author: David E. BloomPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
This study examines the claim that the AIDS epidemic will slow the pace of economic growth. We do this by examining the association, across fifty-one developing and industrial countries for which we were able to assemble data, between changes in the prevalence of AIDS and the rate of growth of GDP per capita. Our analysis uses well- established empirical growth models to control for a variety of factors possibly correlated with AIDS prevalence that might also influence growth. We also account for possible simultaneity in the relationship between AIDS and economic growth. Our main finding is that the AIDS epidemic has had an insignificant effect on the growth rate of per capita income, with no evidence of reverse causality. We also find evidence that the insignificant effect of AIDS on income per capita is qualitatively similar to an insignificant effect on wages of the Black Death in England and France during the Middle Ages and an insignificant effect on output per capita of influenza in India during 1918-19.
Economic and Social Progress in Jeopardy
Author: United Nations. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the PacificPublisher: United Nations Publications
ISBN: 9789211201642
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
The Asian and Pacific region now accounts for one in every five new HIV infections worldwide, with over eight million people living with the disease by the end of 2002. This study examines the developmental challenges involved and the socio-economic policy responses required to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the region.