| Poverty and the disease are interrelated. It is a major | | | | well as identification of the macro level effects. Now, |
| factor which leads to behaviors that expose people to | | | | both the micro as well as macro levels are interlinked |
| the danger of getting infected with the disease. It | | | | closely. |
| worsens the impact of the disease. The occurrence of | | | | As it is, there is a big relation in between the disease |
| the disease can lead to an escalation of deficiency | | | | as well as socioeconomic factors which can be both |
| and can even push some non-poor into financial | | | | the cause, as well as the effect of the disease. Such |
| scarcity. | | | | dual relation gives rise to composite causal patterns as |
| Millions of people are getting affected by the disease | | | | well as vicious cycles that make cause-effect relations |
| every year, despite various measures taken up by the | | | | much difficult in terms of isolation. So, an enlarged level |
| governments across the worlds. The focus on | | | | of poverty as well as income inequality, paves way for |
| poverty as an important reason for the spread of the | | | | the spread of the disease. Similarly, the disease on the |
| disease began to be felt around 2004 when it was | | | | other hand, deteriorates the economic condition of the |
| estimated that out of the 39 million people living with | | | | affected person, which leads to an increased level of |
| the disease, 25 million lived in sub-Saharan Africa alone, | | | | poverty as well as inequality. |
| whereas 7.1 million in South as well as South-eastern | | | | At a macroeconomic level, a parallel relation is present |
| Asia. Around 2 million were believed to be there in | | | | in between the disease as well as economic growth. |
| Latin America and the Caribbean. | | | | Now, while the disease is said to be responsible for |
| So, more than sixty percent of the infected people | | | | slowing the economic growth; the economic growth on |
| were there in the poor regions of sub-Saharan Africa, | | | | the other hand is related to financial crisis as well as |
| which was home to less than twelve percent of the | | | | accessibility of wealth. As it is, these are the factors, |
| total world population at that time. The disease affects | | | | which determine the ability of a nation, to deal with |
| the different organized levels of the economy. | | | | such a disease. |
| However, the most relevant impact in regard to this is | | | | Therefore, HIV/AIDS and poverty are indeed |
| felt in terms of human as well as social costs, is felt at | | | | interrelated. |
| the domestic level, there is escalating confirmation as | | | | |