The hidden battle

The AIDS epidemic will cause significant increases in illness and death in prime‐age adults, which will manifest itself through negative social, economic and developmental impacts. The epidemics economic impacts at the household level are decreased income, increased health‐care costs, decreased productive capacity and changing expenditure patterns. Three coping strategies are observed: altering household composition; withdrawing savings or selling assets; and receiving assistance from other households. Following death, the impacts break out of the family into the community, primarily through orphaning. In the near future, the sheer number of orphans may overwhelm the capacity of existing community resources to cope. The distribution of the impacts of the AIDS epidemic falls unevenly among the genders. In Africa, women have higher infection rates and bear a disproportionate burden of the care of HIV‐positive people. Orphaned girls are more vulnerable to exploitation

Battle · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Geography · Socioeconomics · Child Nutrition and Water Access · HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

• Fluid Households, Complex Families

  Lorraine Young, N Ansell•The Professional Geographer•2003

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• Expanding the care continuum for HIV/Aids

  Open Access•Jessica Ogden•Health Policy and Planning•2006

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• Young Aids migrants in Southern Africa

  Lorraine Young, N Ansell•AIDS Care•2003

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• Substituting for Families? Schools and Social Reproduction in Aids‐affected Lesotho

  Open Access•N Ansell•Antipode•2008

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• Children's Experiences of Migration

  Open Access•Lorraine Van Blerk, N Ansell•Environment and Planning D…•2006

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• The socioeconomic impact of antiretroviral treatment on individuals in Soweto, South Africa

  Varsha Chhagan, John Luiz et al.•Health Sociology Review•2008

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• Stigma, Culture, and HIV and Aids in the Western Cape, South Africa

  Open Access•Collins Airhihenbuwa, Collins O Airhihenbuwa et al.•Journal of Black Psychology•2009

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