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Facing up to AIDS

The Socio-Economic Impact in Southern Africa

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  • © 1996

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Editors:
  1. Sholto Cross

    1. Urban and Rural Development, Independent Development Trust, Cape Town, South Africa

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  2. Alan Whiteside

    1. Economic Research Unit, University of Natal, South Africa

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Setting the Scene

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Alan Whiteside
      Pages 3-12

    3. The Global Pandemic of AIDS

      • D. W. FitzSimons
      Pages 13-33

    4. Current Research on the Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS: A Review of the International and South African Literature

      • Jonathan Broomberg
      Pages 34-57

  4. Economic Assessments for South Africa

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
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    2. A Socio-Economic Analysis of the Long-Run Effects of AIDS in South Africa

      • Sholto Cross
      Pages 137-157

    3. The Economic Impact of the AIDS Epidemic in South Africa

      • Jonathan Broomberg, Malcolm Steinberg, Patrick Masobe, Graeme Behr
      Pages 158-190

    4. Some Reflections on a Human Capital Approach to the Analysis of the Impact of AIDS on the South African Economy

      • George Trotter
      Pages 191-214

  5. The African Experience

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215
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    2. The Impact of AIDS on Industry in Zimbabwe

      • Alan Whiteside
      Pages 217-240

    3. The Medical Costs of AIDS in Zimbabwe

      • Richard Hore
      Pages 241-260

    4. Simple Methods for Monitoring the Socio-Economic Impact of AIDS: Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa

      • Tony Barnett, Piers Blaikie
      Pages 261-292

  6. Facing up to AIDS in South Africa

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 293-293
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    2. Lessons from Tropical Africa for Addressing the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in South Africa

      • Alan Fleming
      Pages 295-317

    3. Facing up to AIDS

      • Sholto Cross
      Pages 318-320
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Urban and Rural Development, Independent Development Trust, Cape Town, South Africa

    Sholto Cross

  • Economic Research Unit, University of Natal, South Africa

    Alan Whiteside

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