Understanding the Southern African 'anomaly': Poverty, endemic disease and HIV

Development and Change

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 195-224

  Sawers, Larry ^a   Stillwaggon, Eileen ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GETTYSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE TREATMENT; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PARASITIC DISEASE; POVERTY; VULNERABILITY;

SOUTHERN AFRICA;

EID: 77953145189     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2010.01639.x     Document Type: Article

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