Poverty Not Responsible for Spread of HIV
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Published: July 8, 2010
Poverty Not Responsible for Spread of HIV
By Shamsydeen Badmus
A new study published in this month’s Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO) suggests that neither wealth nor poverty is driving the spread of HIV and AIDS in Africa. The study’s findings challenge widely accepted views that poverty fuels HIV. The researcher, Justin Parkhurst of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, carried out a comparative analysis of HIV and wealth data from 12 sub-Saharan African countries with generalised epidemics. Parkhurst found several different patterns for the relation between income level and HIV prevalence, varying according to country, time, gender and education level. His findings indicate that prevention campaigns targeted at specific risk behaviours should be stronger than “one-size-fits-all” models which do not account for the complex relation between all those factors.
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