Debt relief &amp; social investment: linking the HIPC initiative to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa: the case of Zambia

Cheru, Fantu

doi:10.1080/03056240008704487

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Review of African Political Economy

Volume 27, Issue 86

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Debt relief & social investment: linking the HIPC initiative to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa: the case of Zambia

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Author(s): Fantu Cheru ^a ^, ^b

Publication date (Print): December 2000

Journal: Review of African Political Economy

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Besides being a global public health emergency, the HIV/AIDS epidemic has become the foremost contemporary threat to the development of many African countries. Past achievements in economic growth, improved life expectancy and decreasing child mortality have been reversed by the rapid spread of the HIV virus. It is estimated that each day in Africa more than 5,000 people die from AIDS or HIV related illness, with the figure expected to climb to almost 13,000 by 2005. In the context of this unfolding humanitarian crisis, creditor nations and institutions should cancel outstanding debt immediately so that resources of affected countries can be directed toward containment of the epidemic, within broader strategies of poverty alleviation. Addressing this crisis should not be construed as an act of charity, but an obligation ‐ and a necessity. Linking debt relief to HIV/AIDS is one small but important step in the long march to eradicate poverty in the poorest developing countries. This article examines a proposal formulated in Zambia to enact such a link.

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Title: Review of African Political Economy

Publisher: Review of African Political Economy

ISSN (Print): 0305-6244

ISSN (Electronic): 1740-1720

Publication date (Print): December 2000

Volume: 27

Issue: 86

Pages: 519-535

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^a UN High Commission for Human Rights , Geneva

^b Professor , American University , Washington , DC

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Publisher ID: 8704487 Coden ID: Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 27, No. 86, December 2000, pp. 519-535

DOI: 10.1080/03056240008704487

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1999. . 11th International Conference on AIDS and STDs in Africa (ICASA); . September 12–16– 1999 ; . pp.p. 2
‘In the 90's it became clear that we were not going to have a major heterosexual epidemic in the States ... [AIDs] was no longer a threat to the West’ , Gellman , Barton , 5 July 2000 , A12

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[1] 1999. . 11th International Conference on AIDS and STDs in Africa (ICASA); . September 12–16– 1999 ; . pp.p. 2

[2] ‘In the 90's it became clear that we were not going to have a major heterosexual epidemic in the States ... [AIDs] was no longer a threat to the West’ , Gellman , Barton , 5 July 2000 , A12