A Conceptual Framework for Factors Associated with HIV Infection Risk: A Life Course Perspective
12 Pages Posted: 27 Dec 2011
Date Written: November 10, 2011
Abstract
For more than twenty-seven years now, more than 25 million people have died from AIDS; the disease, continues to cause debilitating illnesses and premature death in people during their prime years of life and has devastated families and communities. HIV infection and disease has complicated efforts to fight poverty, improve health, and promote development by on whether individuals are exposed to infection and whether they acquire infection after exposure. Many characteristics from individual to the population level and the infection itself contributes to determining the risk of exposure and acquisition, and there will be causal pathways linking social, demographic, economic, cultural, behavioral and biological variables. In order to identify the multiple inter-relationships for HIV Infection, a coherent conceptual framework is needed. The aim of this paper is to describe the life course perspective of the factors associated with HIV Infection after exposure. The conceptual framework discussed provides opportunity for policy makers, Researchers and Program designer to understand the factors associated with HIV risk at different levels of human life to be able to design life-stage appropriated policies and Interventions.
Keywords: Life course, HIV Infection, Framework, conceptual
JEL Classification: I20, I28, I31
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