Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: provided the original work is properly cited. Since the start of the HIV pandemic, epidemiology has pro-vided critical insights into the natural history of HIV infection, HIV prevalence and trends, and individual risk factors asso-ciated with infection. Epidemiology has also contributed to the evaluation of antiretroviral medicines and the develop-ment and assessment of public health interventions. Less often, epidemiology has focussed upon understanding the influence of macro-social and economic factors that affect HIV prevalence, such as poverty, gender inequality, population mobility and conflict. Social epidemiology, examining the social and structural determinants of HIV vulnerability, has unques-tionably contributed to advancing HIV understanding [1,2], yet dissatisfaction with what is construed as an overly biomedical approach to the HIV epidemic (and epidemiology)
Author: Joseph J Amon
Institution: Human Rights Watch
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,600
OpenAlex ID: W2037118650