Who Is Falling Behind? Is AIDS-Related Mortality Contributing to Increased ‘Income’ Mobility in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa?
30 Pages Posted: 7 Jan 2019
Date Written: 2009
Abstract
While HIV and AIDS have been described as a “disease of poverty” (see for example, Afrol News, 2002), empirical studies examining the relationship between poverty and the risk of HIV infection or AIDS mortality report mixed findings (Beegle, De Weerdt and Dercon 2008; Gillespie, Kadiyala and Greener 2007b). Recently, it has been argued that HIV is more strongly associated with inequality than poverty per se and therefore, the epidemic is more severe in countries undergoing economic transitions (Piot, Greener and Russell 2007). Thus, the universal relationship between poverty and HIV and AIDS tend to remain complex and exceptional (Gillespie et al. 2007a; Gillespie et al. 2007b).
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