HIV/AIDS and the Mining and Commercial Agricultural Sectors in Southern Africa

Charles Hongoro, Getnet Tadele and Helmut Kloos

Chapter 7 in Vulnerabilities, Impacts, and Responses to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2013, pp 127-142 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The United Nations has reported that 5% of adults in their prime working years (ages 15-49) in Sub-Saharan Africa were infected with HIV in 2009 but between 11% and 26% in the nine continental southern African countries (UNAIDS 2010, p. 181). Although HIV-related incidence, prevalence, and mortality have decreased in recent years, rates are still extraordinarily high in the region, and while the number of people dying from AIDS in southern Africa decreased from 740,000 in 2004 to 610,000 in 2009 (UNAIDS 2010, p. 185), the continuing increase in the number of infected people surviving on antiretroviral therapy (ART) increases costs for many businesses. The impacts of HIV/AIDS on businesses are particularly severe in southern Africa because the region’s economies depend on labor-intensive industries that are extremely vulnerable to endogenous factors such as human capital and external shocks, particularly changes in commodity prices and international trade. Impact studies indicate that businesses in the region have been significantly affected by these and other factors (Casale and Whiteside 2006; ILO 2004, p. 18; SABCOHA 2004).

Keywords: Gold Miner; Migrant Worker; Migrant Laborer; International Labour Organization; Commercial Farm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137009951_7

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