• HIV and AIDS recommended readings

HIV and AIDS recommended readings

By affecting the working-age population, the HIV/AIDS epidemic depletes human resources, distorts labour markets, disrupts production and consumption, and ultimately diminishes national wealth. In addition, the disease strikes the poor hardest: more than 95% of people living with HIV/AIDS are in low-income countries. In high-income countries, poor and marginalized groups account for an increasing share of new infections. Improved health and educational levels, in addition to workplace prevention plans, are necessary to stem the epidemic.

This UNAIDS report, produced for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, 2002, highlights why meaningful sustainable development cannot occur if the AIDS epidemic continues to drain human resources and deepen poverty and hardship. Human resource planning needs to take account of an advancing and long-term epidemic. Especially valuable are strategies that tackle the underlying socio-economic factors that leave people vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. The report outlines a way forward composed of three main elements: to drastically reduce the number of new infections; to expand access to treatment and care to all who need it, and to reduce the impact of AIDS on social and economic development [adapted from author].

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