Is there any connection between poverty and the prevalence of HIV and AIDS?

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Medicine - Internal Medicine, grade: A, University of Buckingham, language: English, abstract: The connection between poverty and HIV and it¿s a marriage that needs to

be prevented.

To understand the relationship one has to make sense of the complex socioeconomic

processes in the society and not forgetting conceptualization of

poverty which is multi-dimensional. Poverty actually completes the vicious

cycle of HIV.

The estimated number of people living with HIV in 2009 was estimated to be

around 33.3 million by the United Nation Program on HIV/AIDS( UNAIDS),

in sub-Saharan Africa two thirds are infected with HIV and they are from

lower socio-economical groups, with women affected more than men(

Regional Statistic for HIV and AIDS, 2009)

High percentage of population living on less than 1 dollar per day have a

higher HIV prevalence as shown by the data provided by UNAIDS. (Global

Report, 2006) Industrialized countries have lower HIV prevalence, compared

to countries with high percentage of population living below 1 dollar. The

graph below shows the relationship between poverty and HIV.