Title: Sexually transmitted disease and gender roles: an index of cultural evolution.

POPLINE Document Number: 314446

Author(s):

Mackey WC
Immerman RS

Source citation:

Cross-Cultural Research, 2007 Feb;41(1):46-65.

Abstract:

In the last 25 years of the 20th century, two events occurred that may affect cultural evolution into the foreseeable future. First, birth rates in a number of industrialized nations dropped below the level of population maintenance, and, second, the HIV/AIDS virus emerged, spread, and became embedded and endemic in many nations. The relationship between the spread of HIV/AIDS and several parameters of a nation's demography is empirically examined. Then, three distinct cultural responses to the incidence HIV/AIDS are examined in three regions of the world: Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, and a Muslim area stretching from Mauritania to Pakistan. (author's)

Keywords:

Developing Countries
Research Report
Islam
Culture
AIDS
HIV Infections
Epidemiology
Pregnancy
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Prevalence
Sex Factors
Immune System
Religion
Sociocultural Factors
Viral Diseases
Diseases
Public Health
Health
Reproduction
Reproductive Tract Infections
Infections
Measurement
Research Methodology
Population Characteristics
Demographic Factors
Population
Physiology
Biology