TY  - JOUR
T1  - Is HIV/AIDS a disease of poverty?
AU  - Can, Ali Rıza
PY  - 2018
DA  - December
JF  - Eurasian Journal of Anthropology
JO  - Euras J Anthropol
PB  - ÖREN-ADRAMYTTEİON ANTİK KENTİ KÜLTÜR TURİZM VE DOĞA DERNEĞİ
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2166-7411
SP  - 57
EP  - 65
VL  - 9
IS  - 2
LA  - en
AB  - HIV/AIDS is a global pandemic. From the biomedical perspective,HIV is a virus. HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. Thevirus attacks the immune system, and weakens the body’s abilityto fight infection and disease. In recent years, the participationof anthropology in health research has been increasing.Especially, in the 1980s anthropologists were drawn the AIDSprogramme to make catalogue cultural practices that might carrythe risk of HIV transmission. By an anthropological perspective,the HIV/AIDS epidemic is caused by poverty, starvation andhunger, war, unemployment, uneven regional development, sextraffic, migration and working away from home, prostitution andselling sex, drug transactions, and discrimination. This workconsiders the way in which poverty affects the HIV/AIDSepidemic, and the causes of spreading HIV pandemic are not justevaluated by poverty, also is evaluated considering by wealth.
KW  - Medical anthropology
KW  - HIV/AIDS
KW  - poverty
KW  - inequality
CR  - Aggleton P, Davies PM, Hart G. (1992) AIDS: rights, risk and reason. London: Falmer.
UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/eja/issue//619598
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/807032
ER  -