Although health is generally believed to improve with higher wealth, research on HIV in sub-
Saharan Africa has shown otherwise. Whereas researchers and advocates have frequently …

Contrary to theories that poverty acts as an underlying driver of human immunodeficiency
virus (HIV) infection in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), an increasing body of evidence at the …

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationships between the prevalence of human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and underlying structural factors of poverty and …

Background: Wealthier populations do better than poorer ones on most measures of health
status, including nutrition, morbidity and mortality, and healthcare utilization. Objectives: This …

Evidence of associations between socioeconomic status and the spread of HIV in different
settings and at various stages of the epidemic is still rudimentary. Few existing studies are …

This study sets out to establish and explain the empirical link between HIV/AIDS and poverty
using data collected by the 1998 South African Demographic and Health Survey (SADHS) …

The link between HIV infection and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is rather complex
and findings from previous studies remain inconsistent. While some argue that poverty …

Introduction Extant studies universally document a positive gradient between socioeconomic
status (SES) and health. A notable exception is the apparent concentration of HIV/AIDS …

Background: Knowledge of the effect of socioeconomic status on HIV infection in Africa
stems largely from cross-sectional studies. Cross-sectional studies suffer from two important …

Whether it is relative wealth or relative poverty that drives the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan
Africa, is a controversial aspect of HIV/AIDS epidemiology. We suggest that the social …