AIDS in Africa : its present and future impact

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AIDS in Africa : its present and future impact

Tony Barnett and Piers Blaikie

Belhaven Press, 1992

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [178]-189) and index

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In Europe and America, AIDS, although terrifying in its potential and devastating to those whom it affects, is still a minority disease. In Africa the impact of AIDS is widespread and the disease has already spread largely into the heterosexual community, particularly in the economically active age groups. For a continent already weakened by drought, poverty, civil war and debt, this latest catastrophe threatens to be the most severe problem Africa has ever faced. It could result in millions of deaths not only directly from the disease but also from starvation caused by economic collapse. Forced migration and refugees could spread the disease even further, thus inducing a particularly vicious circle of debility and death. The West has hitherto understood little of the brink of the disaster on which Africa stands. Barnett and Blaikie, who have extensively studied the impact of the disease in the field in Uganda, have produced a sensitive and compelling analysis of the disease's human cost, and particularly how individuals, both those infected and their relatives, cope with the infection. Economic problems, particularly subsistence agriculture, and the human plight of widows and orphans are described and the dire consequences for already fragile economies are disucssed. However, the book is essentially about the harrowing human consequences of an incurable disease already endemic in a large proportion of the population. AIDS is an international problem and Africa's terrifying present cannot be ignored by those who have to confront the disease's future.

目次

  • The downstream impact of AIDS in Africa
  • the demographic impact of AIDS in Africa
  • coping with AIDS - rationality, explanation and action
  • coping with AIDS - the downstream social and economic effects
  • vulnerability and the ecology of risk in Buganda
  • how households, families and communities cope with AIDS
  • the special case of orphans
  • the impact of AIDS on farming systems
  • the way ahead - the wider picture, current responses and the future.

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