Nepal Binod
National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra, Australia.
World Health Popul. 2007;9(3):73-80. doi: 10.12927/whp.2007.19293.
This paper examines the association of wealth, equity and good governance in the HIV/AIDS pandemic and the feminization of this disease. A cross-country analysis was performed on adult HIV prevalence and the percentage of women among adults living with HIV/AIDS. These two indicators were significantly correlated with wealth, economic equity, gender equity and good governance. Multivariate linear regression analysis identified economic and gender equity as the two prominent factors linked with the HIV/AIDS epidemics. Gender equity, measured by the gender-related development index, emerged as the consistently significant determinant of the overall HIV epidemic and the female epidemic as well. Promoting equity, particularly gender equity, should justifiably be a primary concern of policies and programs to defeat the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
本文探讨了在艾滋病毒/艾滋病大流行中财富、公平与善治之间的关联以及该疾病的女性化问题。对成人艾滋病毒流行率以及感染艾滋病毒/艾滋病的成年人中女性所占百分比进行了跨国分析。这两个指标与财富、经济公平、性别公平和善治显著相关。多元线性回归分析确定经济公平和性别公平是与艾滋病毒/艾滋病流行相关的两个突出因素。以性别相关发展指数衡量的性别公平，成为总体艾滋病毒流行以及女性感染艾滋病毒情况的始终显著的决定因素。促进公平，尤其是性别公平，理应成为战胜艾滋病毒/艾滋病大流行的政策和方案的首要关注点。
