AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty

This book draws on conventional epidemiology, which recognises that people who are malnourished, who are burdened with parasites and infectious diseases, and who lack access to medical care are more vulnerable to other diseases, regardless of whether they are transmitted by air, water, food, or sex. HIV/AIDS is not a special case. Based on a wealth of scientific evidence, Stillwaggon demonstrates that the HIV/AIDS epidemic cannot be stopped in isolation. Her critique offers pragmatic solutions to economic, social, and health problems that beset economically poor populations and contribute to the spread of HIV/AIDS. The message of this book is optimistic because the solutions to almost all of the co-factor conditions and infections that promote HIV are already known, and the institutions already exist to make those solutions available to poor people.

Table of Contents

• Perspective
  Appendix to Chapter One: Sex, everywhere

Part One: The Ecology of Disease

• Biological Synergies and Disease
  Appendix to Chapter Two: Prevalence of parasite infection
• HIV-Specific Synergies

Part Two: Health Profiles of Developing and Transition Regions

• Sub-Saharan Africa: Fertile Terrain
  Appendix to Chapter Four: Regression Analysis
• Dualism in Latin America
  Appendix to Chapter Five: Regression Analysis
• The Context of HIV/AIDS in the Former Socialist Countries

Part Three: The Derailment of HIV/AIDS Research

• Racial Metaphors: Interpreting Sex and AIDS in Africa
• The Individual Bias in Methodology

Part Four: Consequences

• HIV/AIDS Policies: Too Little, Too Late in the Game
• Workplace Interventions for STD/HIV/AIDS Prevention

Part Five: Solutions

• Opportunistic Investments for Human Development
  Works Cited