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Lessons from Tropical Africa for Addressing the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in South Africa

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Facing up to AIDS

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The main epidemic of HIV and AIDS, in the majority population of South Africa, is the geographical extension southwards of the pandemic in East and Central Africa. Heterosexual contact is the dominant mode of transmission. This one fact determines the pattern of impact of AIDS on society, on demography and on the economy: the clinical expression in adults and children is affected largely by the mode of transmission, so society’s response and its attempt to contain the epidemic will be meaningful only insofar as there is an understanding of the heterosexual partner contact networks in South Africa.

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  1. Urban and Rural Development, Independent Development Trust, Cape Town, South Africa

    Sholto Cross (Director) (Director)

  2. Economic Research Unit, University of Natal, South Africa

    Alan Whiteside (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

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Fleming, A. (1996). Lessons from Tropical Africa for Addressing the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in South Africa. In: Cross, S., Whiteside, A. (eds) Facing up to AIDS. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24930-5_13

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