Week7: Social infrastructure and highway development: adapting the Michinoeki to combat AIDS in Africa.
This lecture will explore the concept of social infrastructure in highway development. The Michinoeki is a Japanese concept � it refers to the development of roadside service stations which have the purpose of providing high quality rest for travellers through the provision of services by local communities. This development planning tool is being investigated by the World Bank in the African context as a mechanism which could also provide health services necessary to the combat of AIDS. Truck drivers are a key source of AIDS infection and developing social infrastructure in combination with highway construction is now on the development agenda. The lecture will explore the potential of this development in relation to other possible gender related needs such as maternal health.
http://www.worldbank.org/transport/roads/rdside%20station%20docs/02_NoteA.pdf
See also: http://www.geocities.com/gender_and_transport/seminar2notes5.htm for a discussion of the relationship between transport corridors and patterns of HIV/AIDS infection.
References � reading in German:
The context of AIDS in Africa
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