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Examining the demographic impact of HIV/AIDS provides a bird’s-eye view of the human dimension of the pandemic. It necessarily deals in aggregate numbers — shares of the population that are infected, average number of years from infection until death, mortality rates — and may seem somewhat clinical and dispassionate. But as other chapters in this volume illustrate so clearly, underlying these aggregate statistics are the personal passions and struggles of millions of individuals who have been forced to confront a disease that threatens life and family in ways that those of us unaffected are hard-pressed to understand.
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Lewis, J.D. (2004). Assessing the Demographic and Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS. In: Kauffman, K.D., Lindauer, D.L. (eds) AIDS and South Africa: the Social Expression of a Pandemic. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230523517_5
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