Fertility

This volume, based on the 2002 conference ‘Fertility: The Current South African Issues of Poverty, HIV/AIDS, and Youth’ emanating from the partnership between the Department of Social Development, the South African Regional Poverty Network (SARPN), and the HSRC, examines the underlying inextricable link between fertility and socio-economic development.

Product Information

Format:

148mm x 210mm

Pages:

144

ISBN-13:

978-07969-2035-5

Publish Year:

2003

Rights:

World Rights

Foreword: Dr ZST Skweyiya, MP
Preface: Dr Mark Orkin
Overview: Department of Social Development
Acknowledgements
Acronyms

Introduction: Christine Varga

Fertility transition in South Africa and its impact on the four major racial groups
Leon Swartz
Fertility, poverty and gender
Barbara A Anderson
Response to 2
Monde B Makiwane
Youth and fertility
Kim Eva Dickson
Response to Paper 3
Eric O Udjo
HIV/AIDS and fertility
Gretchen du Plessis
Fertility issues in Southern Africa
John C Caldwell and Pat Caldwell

Prepared by the Child, Youth and Family Development Research Programme of the HSRC in collaboration with the Department of Social Development