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AIDS and human security in Southern Africa

Author: Nattrass, Nicoli Date: 2002 HIV/AIDS is the greatest health threat facing humankind - particularly for those people living in Southern Africa. Of the estimated 40 million people infected with HIV worldwide, over two thirds live in Sub-Saharan Africa. Southern African ... Read more c b n d
AIDS and human security in Southern Africa

Author: Nattrass, Nicoli Date: 2002 The rapid spread of HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa is both a cause and a consequence of poverty. But while there is a clear link between AIDS and economic insecurity, there is no evidence of a connection between AIDS and security understood in ... Read more
AIDS and the scientific governance of medicine in post-apartheid South Africa

Author: Nattrass, Nicoli Date: 2008 AIDS policy in post-apartheid South Africa has been shaped by persistent antipathy towards antiretroviral drugs (ARVs). This hostility was framed initially by President Mbeki's questioning of AIDS science and subsequently by direct resistance ... Read more
AIDS and the scientific governance of medicine in South Africa

Author: Nattrass, Nicoli Date: 2006 South Africa's approach to AIDS has been shaped by persistent antipathy on the part of President Mbeki and his Health Minister towards antiretroviral therapy. This was framed initially by Mbeki's questioning of AIDS science and subsequently ... Read more c b n d
AIDS Conspiracy Beliefs and Unsafe Sex in Cape Town

Author: Grebe, Eduard ; Nattrass, Nicoli Date: 2011 This paper uses multivariate logistic regressions to explore: (1) potential socio-economic, cultural, psychological and political determinants of AIDS conspiracy beliefs among young adults in Cape Town; and (2) whether these beliefs matter ... Read more
AIDS denialism versus science

Author: Nattrass, Nicoli Date: 2009 Read more
AIDS growth and distribution in South Africa

Author: Nattrass, Nicoli Date: 2002 This paper discusses recent research into the economic impact of AIDS in South Africa. It focuses on demographic and macroeconomic modelling and on firm-level impact studies. While the overall picture is murky, certain trends and findings are ... Read more c b n d
AIDS Growth and Distribution in South Africa

Author: Nattrass, Nicoli Date: 2002 This paper discusses recent research into the economic impact of AIDS in South Africa. It focuses on demographic and macroeconomic modelling and on firm-level impact studies. While the overall picture is murky, certain trends and findings are ... Read more
AIDS, economic growth and income distribution in South Africa

Author: Nattrass, Nicoli Date: 2003 South Africa is home to more HIV-positive people than any other country in the world. This is a developmental disaster, yet our understanding of the economic impact of the AIDS pandemic is sketchy at best. Macroeconomic modellers are divided ... Read more
AIDS, gender and access to Antiretroviral treatment in South Africa

Author: Nattrass, Nicoli Date: 2006 In South Africa, the AIDS epidemic has highly gendered dimensions. Typically, women's social oppression is implicated in understanding gender and AIDS issues. In the context of treatment, this paper shows that HAART coverage is better for ... Read more c b n d
AIDS, unemployment and disability in South Africa: the case for welfare reform

Author: Nattrass, Nicoli Date: 2005 South Africa is facing a dual crisis of AIDS and unemployment.1 According to the ASSA2002 demographic model, by 2005 19% of adults (and 11% of all South Africans) were HIV-positive. This amounts to a socioeconomic crisis of significant ... Read more
AIDS, unemployment and disability in South Africa: The case for welfare reform

Author: Nattrass, Nicoli Date: 2005 South Africa is facing a dual crisis of AIDS and unemployment. According to the ASSA2002 demographic model, by 2005 19% of adults (and 11% of all South Africans) were HIV-positive. This amounts to a socioeconomic crisis of significant ... Read more
Ambiguities of 'culture' and the antiretroviral rollout in South Africa

Author: Ashforth, Adam ; Nattrass, Nicoli Date: 2006 This paper reflects on two contrasting cultural strategies for supporting the rollout of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART): The Treatment Action Campaign's Treatment Literacy Programme which seeks to educate people into a conventional ... Read more c b n d
Ambiguities of 'culture' and the Antiretroviral rollout in South Africa

Author: Ashforth, Adam ; Nattrass, Nicoli Date: 2005 This paper reflects on two contrasting cultural strategies for supporting the rollout of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART): The Treatment Action Campaign's Treatment Literacy Programme which seeks to educate people into a conventional ... Read more
Antiretroviral treatment and the problem of political will in South Africa

Author: Nattrass, Nicoli Date: 2006 South African AIDS policy has long been characterised by suspicion on the part of President Mbeki and his Health Ministers towards antiretroviral therapy.1,2 The Minister of Health, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, resisted the introduction of ... Read more
Are country reputations for good and bad leadership on AIDS deserved: an exploratory quantitative analysis

Author: Nattrass, Nicoli Date: 2008 Some countries, like Brazil, have good reputations on AIDS policy, whereas others, notably South Africa, have been criticized for inadequate leadership. Cross-country regression analysis suggests that most of the 'poster children' for AIDS ... Read more c b n d
Are country reputations for good and bad leadership on AIDS deserved?: an exploratory quantitative analysis

Author: Nattrass, Nicoli Date: 2008 Some countries (e.g. Brazil) have good reputations on AIDS policy, whereas others, (notably South Africa) have been criticized for inadequate leadership. Cross-country regression analysis reveals that these 'poster children' for AIDS leadership ... Read more
Assessing the sustainability of seal tourism at Duiker Island, Hout Bay

Author: Heide, Trygve Date: 2020 Pinniped focused tourism has grown rapidly both globally and in South Africa. In a 2002 survey South Africa was identified as having earned the most revenue from seal ecotourism of all the countries that engage in this activity. Seal tourism ... Read more
Attrition in the Khayelitsha panel study (2000-2004)

Author: Magruder, Jeremy ; Nattrass, Nicoli Date: 2005 Despite the fact that the original study had not been designed as a panel study (and despite the fact that no attempt to track the respondents had been made in the intervening four years), the response rate was (as we argue below) reasonably ... Read more c b n d
A brief history of predators, sheep farmers and government in the Western Cape, South Africa

Author: Nattrass, Nicoli ; Conradie, Beatrice ; Drouilly, Marine ; O'Riain, M. Justin Date: Mar 2017 This paper provides a brief history of the conflict between South African sheep farmers and predators (and we touch also on the debate between diverse stakeholders over how best to respond to that conflict). We focus in particular on black-backed ... Read more