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HIV/aids, adult heath, and agriculture in sub-saharan Africa>> Notes

• He talked about where we are now and were we might have been in the next coming yearsFrom 2004.

• Review of the hiv aid epidemic up to 2004

• In particular in the rural house households

• The world changed in 2003-2004

• 15 billion from 2003-2008, major share for treatment

• key Q: whould those on treatment get healthy enough to go back to labor demanding jobs (like labor intensive farming is SSA), how quickly and how productive would they be?

• What would have happened in the absence of the PEPFAR program

• - hiv aid came out of noway in the 18ties , it was a leading cause of death world while. Killing children and adults.

• 25 million out of 35 million with hiv/aids was in sub Saharan Africa.

• 2.3 million people dyong annually as in 2004.

• They were leaving with the inflection until they died.

• Aouroung 2000 the un security council identify aid as an epidemic disease

• Does hiv mean that their will be food crises in those area if the family farming operation are affect.

• Would hiv affect farming operation?

• 1st, impact on individual living with disease

• 2nd impact on individual large enough to affect household

• Implication for infected individual?

• HIV/aids as chronic illness process through stages of impairment and then premature death.

• If you don feel good u may not harvest, so there are consequences when workers are infected with HIV aids.

• The people who are less productive did not affect the productivity of the crops.

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