Is HIV/AIDS a disease of poverty?

Home Page
About
Submit A Journal
Submit A Conference
Submit Paper/Book
- Submit a Preprint
- Submit a Book
Contact

Eurasian Journal of Anthropology
Volume:9 Issue:2
Is HIV/AIDS a disease of poverty?

Is HIV/AIDS a disease of poverty?

Authors : Ali Rıza CAN

Pages : 57-65

View : 52 | Download : 12

Publication Date : 2018-12-31

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :HIV/AIDS is a global pandemic. From the biomedical perspective, HIV is a virus. HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. The virus attacks the immune system, and weakens the body’s ability to fight infection and disease. In recent years, the participation of anthropology in health research has been increasing. Especially, in the 1980s anthropologists were drawn the AIDS programme to make catalogue cultural practices that might carry the risk of HIV transmission. By an anthropological perspective, the HIV/AIDS epidemic is caused by poverty, starvation and hunger, war, unemployment, uneven regional development, sex traffic, migration and working away from home, prostitution and selling sex, drug transactions, and discrimination. This work considers the way in which poverty affects the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and the causes of spreading HIV pandemic are not just evaluated by poverty, also is evaluated considering by wealth.
Keywords : Medical anthropology, HIV AIDS, poverty, inequality

ORIGINAL ARTICLE URL

* There may have been changes in the journal, article,conference, book, preprint etc. informations. Therefore, it would be appropriate to follow the information on the official page of the source. The information here is shared for informational purposes. IAD is not responsible for incorrect or missing information.