HIV/AIDS is the biggest halt to economic development of LEDC's in Africa

In Africa about 6,500 people die each day due to AIDS related illnesses and AIDS is now the leading cause of death in Sub-Saharan Africa. Latest statistics show that over 29 million of the 42 million people in the world who are HIV positive live in Africa. But how does this effect economic development? Development is the act of improving, by expanding, enlarging or refining- is AIDS/HIV the biggest halt to this in LEDC'S (Less economically developed countries) in Africa? For extra information I will be looking at Zimbabwe and Ethiopia for statistics and graphs.

Grebenik and Moser

This single case study will be conducted using a qualitative research method. This method is appropriate for this research project as it enables researchers to develop ideas and gain an understanding of society through 'studying the way that people make sense of their world as subjective individuals'. Silverman (2001) discusses qualitative research stating, "the methods used by qualitative researchers exemplify a common belief that they can provide a 'deeper' understanding of social phenomena than would be obtained from purely quantitative data".