HIV/AIDS has been and still is the greatest cause of suffering and death in the world. Its impact has been felt from lives to livelihoods and lifestyles of millions of people and their families and societies. The Resolution 1308 was passed by the UN Security Council, which aimed at changing how people perceived HIV/AIDS (Mcinnes & Rushton, pp. 225). This way, many societies may look for the different possibilities for activities and actions that would fight the impact of HIV/AIDS and its further spread. Africa’s Economy and its growth are directly affected by HIV/AIDS.
In ‘South African Politics, Inequalities, and HIV/AIDS Applications for Public Health Education’, Margaret Cunha explains that in South Africa, the response strategy used for the HIV/AIDS crisis is the addressing of the various risk behaviors involved. She identifies the reasons for such risky behavior, which include poverty, gender inequality and mobility. Political and social structures have considerably influenced the risk behaviors (Cunha, 2007). The author then tries to encourage professionals in the health sector and other HIV/AIDS activists to help in the interventions that will steer economic and social change for a HIV/AIDS free generation in South Africa and the rest of Africa.
Bibliography:
Cheru, F. (2003). Debt, adjustment and the politics of effective response to HIV/AIDS in Africa. Sage Public Administration Abstracts. 30.
Cunha, M. (2007). South African Politics, Inequalities, and HIV/AIDS: Applications for Public Health Education. Journal of Developing Societies. 23, 207.
Mcinnes, C., & Simon Rushton. (2002). HIV, AIDS and security: where are we now? International Affairs (Cambridge: Trykt Utg.). 86.
