Abstract
AIDS in the 21st Century argues that the HIV/AIDS epidemic is indicative of a wider problem, the need for a global program of public health. The AIDS epidemic is in part a product of the process of globalization. It is affecting the lives of millions of people: not only those who become ill and die but also their families, households, communities and nations. An epidemic like this is a history changing phenomenon lasting up to 120 years. It has a number of waves: infection, illness and impact. Among the impacts is its effect on food security. Additionally, the global food and agricultural policy environment often places producers in poor countries at market disadvantage. By creating unsustainable livelihoods for the poor, this policy environment may actually contribute to the spread of disease. The current food crises in Southern Africa are in part an effect of 15 years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and will contribute to its increased velocity.

This seminar will look at some of the ways in which market relations and globalization affect human well being and welfare. It will consider how the AIDS epidemic is and has been spread by globalization and what we must do to stop something like this happening in the future. It also makes sound suggestions about what we must do now to confront the disease and its impacts in the newly developing epidemics in Russia, Ukraine and Central Asia.

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