Impact of AIDS
Impact of AIDS
 | This paper explores the nature of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Cambodia, its impact on the country’s development and its effect on the 40 percent of Cambodians who live below the poverty line. It views AIDS within a wider health context, and explores the socio-economic factors that underlie both the epidemic’s development and the shape of the country’s response. Finally, it examines Cambodia’s options going forward, arguing that future responses will be needed along three tracks – those specific to AIDS; those specific to health; and those with a broad development focus. Download this publication |
| India has been facing the HIV/AIDS epidemic since 1986 and many of the infected patients since then may have died in the absence of any curative treatment and inaccessibility to drugs. Download this publication |
| The potential benefits of giving HIV/AIDS a prominent place in PRSPs and HIPC agreements are substantial. They include greater political attention to and increased domestic funding for the national HIV/AIDS programme, as well as a focus on achieving results in implementing a national HIV/AIDS programme. Crucially, it helps to forge greater consensus among stakeholders on the main strategies and medium-term goals in tackling the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Download this publication |
| HIV/AIDS is widespread in much of the developing world. Because it results in exceptional levels of illness and death in the mature adult population, it has many social and economic implications. This manual provides basic concepts to assist in thinking about these implications, together with ideas and techniques for planning responses to the medium- and long-term social and economic impact of HIV/AIDS. Download this publication |
| The number of HIV infections and cases of AIDS reported in the Pacific Island nations is growing steadily. Since many, if not all, of the risk factors for HIV infection are present in the Pacific, without change in behaviors that place people at risk of infection the potential exists for an HIV/AIDS epidemic. This article shows that such an epidemic would considerably increase mortality and slow but not reverse population growth in many Pacific Island countries. As yet, well-designed, multisectoral responses to the threat of an epidemic are lacking. The longer such responses are delayed, the larger will be the epidemic and the greater its potential social and economic costs. Download this publication |
