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and timetables. Today, 29 African countries are participating in the MAP and in
each of these countries a high-level body has been created to oversee the national
multisectoral HIV/AIDS program. As a result HIV/AIDS rates have started to fall in
many of these countries.
In Asia, the disease also reached high levels in the late 1990’s but, unlike Sub
Saharan Africa, has failed to level off. In 2003 alone, there were over one million
newly infected Asians. AIDS is now growing more rapidly in Asia, with 7.4 million
people living with HIV/AIDS.7 For example, Indonesia, one of the most populous
countries in the world, has faced increasing infection rates primarily among
commercial sex workers (CSWs) and injection drug users (IDUs). An increase in the
HIV/AIDS rate is of particular concern in other highly populated countries,
specifically China and India. Here “the epidemic…may be masked by the large
population leading to low reported prevalence, which has resulted in considerable
complications among government and developmental stakeholders” (Hossain
2007:1). A potential reason that the World Bank has not introduced multisectoral
programs in the Asian region is that when taken at face value, the HIV/AIDS rates
don’t yet appear to be very high. Yet as the region’s HIV rates grow apace, action is
urgently needed to prevent the high economic and social costs of the epidemic.
Like Asia, Latin America has a relatively small but nevertheless rather
alarming incidence of HIV/AIDS throughout the region. Although it has the smallest
number of people estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS, namely 1.6 million people,
7 UNAIDS (2003).
Object Description
| Title | Political determinants and economic effects of HIV/AIDS: a push for the multisectoral approach |
| Author | Davis, Dollie |
| Author email | dollieda@usc.edu; dolliesdavis@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Political Economy & Public Policy |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-07-15 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-10-30 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Wise, Carol |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Nugent, Jeffrey B. Chi, Iris |
| Abstract | The proposed dissertation offers an explanation for the large differences in HIV/AIDS rates among 89 low and middle-income countries throughout the Sub Saharan African, Asian, and Latin American regions over a ten-year period (1995-2005). The HIV/AIDS rates in these countries vary widely and seemingly independently of economic wealth. One possible determinant of these differences is the presence and degree of development of strong multisectoral programs aimed at both prevention and cure of HIV/AIDS. The main hypothesis for this dissertation is: "A country's success in combating HIV/AIDS lies in the government's ability to implement an effective multisectoral program." This hypothesis is explored through quantitative models using data from the ten-year period (1995-2005). Results show that the presence of a multisectoral program over the ten-year period is associated with a significantly lower HIV/AIDS incidence rate by 2005. This effect is produced by controlling for various political, economic, societal, and institutional factors. Although there is some anecdotal evidence which suggests that multisectoral programs help to improve the HIV/AIDS problem in developing countries, there has been little if any empirical work done on this subject to date. |
| Keyword | multisectoral; HIV/AIDS; economic development |
| Geographic subject (region) | Carribbean |
| Geographic subject (continent) | Africa; Asia; South America |
| Coverage date | 1995/2005 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1724 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Davis, Dollie |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Davis-2422 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume44/etd-Davis-2422.pdf |
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| Title | Page 16 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 8 and timetables. Today, 29 African countries are participating in the MAP and in each of these countries a high-level body has been created to oversee the national multisectoral HIV/AIDS program. As a result HIV/AIDS rates have started to fall in many of these countries. In Asia, the disease also reached high levels in the late 1990’s but, unlike Sub Saharan Africa, has failed to level off. In 2003 alone, there were over one million newly infected Asians. AIDS is now growing more rapidly in Asia, with 7.4 million people living with HIV/AIDS.7 For example, Indonesia, one of the most populous countries in the world, has faced increasing infection rates primarily among commercial sex workers (CSWs) and injection drug users (IDUs). An increase in the HIV/AIDS rate is of particular concern in other highly populated countries, specifically China and India. Here “the epidemic…may be masked by the large population leading to low reported prevalence, which has resulted in considerable complications among government and developmental stakeholders” (Hossain 2007:1). A potential reason that the World Bank has not introduced multisectoral programs in the Asian region is that when taken at face value, the HIV/AIDS rates don’t yet appear to be very high. Yet as the region’s HIV rates grow apace, action is urgently needed to prevent the high economic and social costs of the epidemic. Like Asia, Latin America has a relatively small but nevertheless rather alarming incidence of HIV/AIDS throughout the region. Although it has the smallest number of people estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS, namely 1.6 million people, 7 UNAIDS (2003). |
