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A Gender Approach study On the Interaction between Poverty, Education human capital and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sjödin, Sofia (2005)
Department of Economics
Abstract
There are approximately 42 million people around the world suffering from HIV/AIDS, 75% of them are living in Sub-Saharan Africa. HIV/AIDS is a raging epidemic in Africa even though the routes of transmission are "easy" to avoid. In the battle against HIV/AIDS there are many aspect to concider. In the Bachelor thesis I intend to argue for a coneection between poverty, education human capital and HIV/AIDS. An empirical example of this connection is the transmission of HIV through breas milk. If a mother is infected she must have the ability to buy baby substitution, to have access to clean water and to have an understanding of why changes in feeding are needed. People in poverty may neither have the income to buy the essentiial product nor... (More)
There are approximately 42 million people around the world suffering from HIV/AIDS, 75% of them are living in Sub-Saharan Africa. HIV/AIDS is a raging epidemic in Africa even though the routes of transmission are "easy" to avoid. In the battle against HIV/AIDS there are many aspect to concider. In the Bachelor thesis I intend to argue for a coneection between poverty, education human capital and HIV/AIDS. An empirical example of this connection is the transmission of HIV through breas milk. If a mother is infected she must have the ability to buy baby substitution, to have access to clean water and to have an understanding of why changes in feeding are needed. People in poverty may neither have the income to buy the essentiial product nor adess to clean water. If education human capital is low parents might not be aware of this route if transmission, unconsciously infecting their children and leading them deeper into poverty. (Less)
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author
Sjödin, Sofia
supervisor
organization
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
HIV/AIDS, poverty, education human capital, SSA, gender, Economics, econometrics, economic theory, economic systems, economic policy, Nationalekonomi, ekonometri, ekonomisk teori, ekonomiska system, ekonomisk politik
language
English
id
1644037
date added to LUP
2005-03-15 00:00:00
date last changed
2010-08-03 15:01:13
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  abstract     = {{There are approximately 42 million people around the world suffering from HIV/AIDS, 75% of them are living in Sub-Saharan Africa. HIV/AIDS is a raging epidemic in Africa even though the routes of transmission are "easy" to avoid. In the battle against HIV/AIDS there are many aspect to concider. In the Bachelor thesis I intend to argue for a coneection between poverty, education human capital and HIV/AIDS. An empirical example of this connection is the transmission of HIV through breas milk. If a mother is infected she must have the ability to buy baby substitution, to have access to clean water and to have an understanding of why changes in feeding are needed. People in poverty may neither have the income to buy the essentiial product nor adess to clean water. If education human capital is low parents might not be aware of this route if transmission, unconsciously infecting their children and leading them deeper into poverty.}},
  author       = {{Sjödin, Sofia}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{A Gender Approach study On the Interaction between Poverty, Education human capital and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa}},
  year         = {{2005}},
}