Responding to Swaziland’s dual epidemic

Responding to Swaziland's dual epidemic.

Responding to the AIDS Epidemic in Africa∗

The proposed project aims to expand understanding of the local response to an epidemic in a resource-poor setting. Using the severe AIDS epidemic in rural Malawi, a very poor country with high HIV prevalence and low bureaucratic development, we will use mixed methods to explore how local actors respond to the AIDS epidemic, including the local implementation of global policies and HIV/AIDS inte...

Obesity: responding to the global epidemic.

Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States and other developed nations. In the United States, 27% of adults are obese and an additional 34% are overweight. Research in the past decade has shown that genetic influences clearly predispose some individuals to obesity. The marked increase in prevalence, however, appears to be attributable to a toxic environment that implicitly di...

Explaining and responding to the Ebola epidemic

The Ebola epidemic in West Africa is not merely a biomedical problem that can be seen in isolation and dealt with only through emergency medical rescue processes. The ethical dilemmas surfaced by this epidemic are also not confined to the usual micro-ethical problems associated with medical care and medical research. The pandemic, as one of many manifestations of failed human and social develop...

Responding to the AIDS epidemic in Angola

South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA), Stellenbosch, South Africa Correspondence to [email protected] Summary The epidemic of HIV in Angola started later and stabilized at lower levels than in most countries in southern Africa. Some studies suggest that certain high risk groups account for a substantial part of the total number of infections. With ...