AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty

• Interdisciplinary approach integrates economic analysis with biological information to explain the causes of the AIDS epidemic
• Only work to show that poverty directly increases vulnerability to HIV transmission through malnutrition and parasite infection
• Explains the differential spread of HIV in different world regions
• Controversial: criticizes the behavioral assumptions of global AIDS policy, most of the organizations that carry it out, and the philosophical and empirical basis for that policy.

Readership: Economists, Health policy and international development professionals, activists, students. Graduate and undergraduate courses in economics, economic development, health economics, sociology, public policy, anthropology, public health, African/Latin American/Asian studies, women's studies

Eileen Stillwaggon, Associate Professor of Economics, Gettysburg College

"This is an important and informative book that should be read by anyone concerned with what to do about HIV/AIDS." - Development and Change, Bridget O'Laughlin