‘That’s resources you see!’: Political economy, ethics and the HIV/AIDS epidemic

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Alan Whiteside and Alex de Waal, c/o Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of KwaZulu‐Natal, Durban, South Africa.

World Health Organisation, ‘Cumulative Number of Reported Cases of Probable Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)’, available at http://www.who.int/csr/sars/country/2003_04_23/en/, accessed 8 July 2004.

Kalipeni Ezekiel, Susan Craddock, Joseph R. Oppong & Jayati Gosh (eds), HIV & AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology (Blackwell, 2004); and Kyle D. Kauffman & David Lindauer (eds), AIDS and South Africa (Palgrave, 2004).

Susan Hunter, Who Cares: AIDS in Africa (Palgrave, 2003); Catherine Campbell, Letting Them Die: Why HIV Interventions Fail (International African Association in association with James Currey, 2003); and Nicoli Nattrass, The Moral Economy of AIDS in South Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

The 2004 UNAIDS Global Report does not give a figure for India—instead, it just gives a range of 2 200 000 to 7 600 000 people infected.

Robert Dorrington, David Bourne, Debbie Bradshaw, Ria Laubscher & Ian M. Timæus, The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Adult Mortality in South Africa (Medical Research Council of South Africa, 2001).

UNAIDS, ‘AIDS and the Military: UNAIDS Point of View’ (UNAIDS Best Practice Collection, 1998), p. 2.

Roger Yeager, Craig Hendrix & Stuart Kingma, ‘International Military Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Policies and Programs: Strengths and Limitations in Current Practice’, Military Medicine, No. 165 (2000), pp. 87–92.

Tadesse Berhe & Hagos Gemechu, ‘War and HIV Prevalence: Evidence from Tigray, Ethiopia’ (African Civil Society Governance and AIDS Initiative, Addis Ababa, July 2004); and Yigeremu Abebe, Ab Schaap, Girmatchew Mamo, Asheber Negussie, Birke Darimo, Dawit Wolday & Eduard J. Sanders, ‘HIV Prevalence in 72,000 Urban and Rural Army Recruits, Ethiopia’, AIDS, Vol. 17, No. 12 (2003), pp. 1835–40.

Personal communications.

But see Tony Barnett & Alan Whiteside, AIDS in the Twenty First Century: Disease and Globalisation (Palgrave, 2002).

Tony Barnett & Piers Blaikie, AIDS in Africa: Its Present and Future Impact (Wiley, 1992); and Sholto Cross & Alan Whiteside (eds), Facing Up to AIDS: The Socio‐Economic Impact in Southern Africa (Macmillan, 1996), based on a conference held in Durban in 1991.

See, for example, the hostile official response to the article: Justin Parkhurst, ‘The Ugandan Success Story? Evidence and Claims of HIV‐1 Prevention’, The Lancet, No. 360 (2002), pp. 78–80.

This is reviewed by Kholoud Porter & Basia Zaba, ‘Empirical evidence for the impact of HIV on adult mortality in the developing world: data from serological studies’, in: Basia Zaba, J. Ties Boerma & Arnaud Fontanet, Supplement to ‘Demographic and Socio‐economic Impact of AIDS: Empirical Evidence’, AIDS, Vol. 18, Supplement 2 (2004), pp. S1–S7.

Quoted in Nattrass, The Moral Economy, p. 79.

Malcolm Steinberg, Saul Johnson, Gill Schierhout, David Ndegwa, Katherine Hall, Bev Russell & Jonathan Morgan, Hitting Home: How Households Cope with the Impact of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: A Survey of Households Affected by HIV/AIDS in South Africa (Health Systems Trust and The Kaiser Family Foundation, 2002).

Clive Bell, Hans Gersbach & Shantanayan Devarajan, ‘The Long‐run Economic Costs of AIDS: Theory and Application to South Africa’, mimeo, World Bank, 2003.

Campbell, Letting Them Die, p. 78.

Ibid., p. 169.

Ibid., p. 44.

For example, African Development Forum, ‘HIV/AIDS: Africa’s Greatest Leadership Challenge: Consensus Statement and Plan of Action', Economic Commission for Africa, December 2000.

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Alan Whiteside and Alex de Waal, c/o Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of KwaZulu‐Natal, Durban, South Africa.