[DM] "Four notes from Jacques Pepin's The Origins of AIDS"

[rfmcdonald]

I've a post up at Demography Matters where I took a close look at four demographics-related themes from Jacques Pepin's The Origins of AIDS, which I noted here Friday. Briefly, the relatively sparse populations of central Africa come to note, as does the responsibility of central Africa's colonizers for this (especially the Congo Free State), while the importance of unbalanced sex ratios in encouraging sex work and the sorts of chance connections that spur major migrations (of viruses and of human beings) is also important.

Go, read.