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Why is South Africa the HIV Capital of the World? An Institutional Analysis of the Spread of a Virus

In: AIDS and South Africa: the Social Expression of a Pandemic

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  • Kyle D. Kauffman

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Africa, the poorest region of the world, has the highest HIV/AIDS rate. The puzzling question is why? And even more puzzling, within Africa, why does Southern Africa have the highest HIV rates? Indeed, South Africa has the largest absolute number of people living with HIV of any nation. Was the spread of this virus inevitable in Southern Africa? Or could a firewall have been built by governments and by civil society? This chapter takes a preliminary look at both the formal and the informal institutions in place in South Africa, and by extension in most of Southern Africa, and how they provided the dry underbrush necessary for the rapid spread of HIV in the region.

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  • Kyle D. Kauffman, 2004. "Why is South Africa the HIV Capital of the World? An Institutional Analysis of the Spread of a Virus," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Kyle D. Kauffman & David L. Lindauer (ed.), AIDS and South Africa: the Social Expression of a Pandemic, chapter 2, pages 17-30, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52351-7_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230523517_2
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    1. Stadler, Jonathan J. & Delany, Sinead & Mntambo, Mdu, 2008. "Women's perceptions and experiences of HIV prevention trials in Soweto, South Africa," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 66(1), pages 189-200, January.

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