Assessing the Demographic and Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS

Jeffrey D. Lewis

Chapter 5 in AIDS and South Africa: the Social Expression of a Pandemic, 2004, pp 97-119 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract 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.

Keywords: Health System Research; African Economy; South African Journal; Demographic Impact; Free State Province (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230523517_5

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