Vulnerabilities, Impacts, and Responses to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

• Author(s): Getnet Tadele, Helmut Kloos,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 274
• ISBN_10: 1137009950
  ISBN_13: 9781137009951
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Disease & Health Issues , Social Science / Developing & Emerging Countries , Social Science / Poverty & Homelessness , Social Science / Anthropology / General , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / General ,

Description:... This book examines HIV/AIDS vulnerabilities, impacts and responses in the socioeconomic and cultural context of Sub-Saharan Africa. With contributions from social scientists and public health experts, the volume identifies gender inequality and poverty as the main causes of the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa.