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Title: | AIDS and food insecurity: ‘New variant famine’ in Malawi? |
Authors: | Robson, E Ansell, N van Blerk, L Chipeta, L Hajdu, F |
Keywords: | food insecurity;new variant famine;AIDS;Malawi |
Issue Date: | 2007 |
Publisher: | College of Medicine and the Medical Association of Malawi |
Citation: | Malawi Medical Journal. 19(4) 136-137. |
Abstract: | In the midst of the 2002/3 food crisis in Southern Africa social scientists De Waal and Whiteside (well known for their respective work on the social construction of famines and the socio-economic impacts of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa), hypothesised in the Lancet that the AIDS pandemic was triggering a ‘new variant famine’ across Southern Africa – a region characterised by recurrent severe food shortages and high adult HIV prevalence rates. This short review considers the applicability of the ‘new variant famine’ hypothesis to Malawi. |
URI: | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/3249 |
ISSN: | 1995-7262 |
Appears in Collections: | Human Geography Dept of Health Sciences Research Papers |
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