Fiona Young

About the author: Fiona Young is a writer for the UN Chronicle, a quarterly publication of the United Nations that has covered the organization's activities and events since its inception.

AIDS is not only a health issue but involves human development and security issues as well, especially in developing countries. As recently as 1998 the AIDS epidemic was handled solely as a health problem, but presently, all bodies of the United Nations are giving the disease much broader attention. Situations in various countries exemplify the connection between AIDS and economic development, such as in Thailand, where farm output and income fell 52 percent because of the numbers of farmers who died from AIDS. In the Ivory Coast seven teachers a week die from AIDS...