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The Long-run Effects of HIV/AIDS in Kenya

Bruhns, Ramona - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

interventions in the health sector in the early phase of the epidemic can strongly mitigate its adverse effects. …

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Negative Reality of the HIV Positives: Evaluating Welfare Loss in a Low Prevalence Country

Das, Sanghamitra; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Ray, Tridip - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

importance of consumption, schooling of children and health (both physical and mental) and find that mental health is far more … transfers (through debt, sale of assets and social insurance) accounts for 2.6% of annual health expenditure and 0.12% of GDP in … 2004. The significance of mental health in welfare evaluation can be gauged from the fact that, for an average HIV family …

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Agricultural productivity and mortality: evidence from Kagera, Tanzania

Ikegami, Munenobu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

We ask whether prime-age adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS decreases the endowment of knowledge for agricultural production in Kagera, Tanzania, reducing total factor productivity. We also quantify how much this negative effect contributes to the decrease in long-term household agricultural output...

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Empirical Analysis of Field Data on HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Khartoum State, Sudan

Mohamed, Issam A.W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The study focuses on the HIV/AIDS in Khartoum state during the period (2003-2007). The main objectives are to study the situation of HIV/AIDS in Khartoum state through a sample of 1439 of volunteers for the three selected blood testing and counseling centers in Khartoum, Omdurman, and Khartoum...

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Fidelity Networks and Long-Run Trends in HIV/AIDS Gender Gaps

Pongou, Roland; Serrano, Roberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

More than half of the HIV/AIDS-infected population today are women. We study a dynamic model of (in)fidelity, which explains the HIV/AIDS gender gap by the configuration of sexual networks. Each individual desires sexual relationships with opposite sex individuals. Two Markov matching processes...

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Layers of evidence: discourse and typologies of faith-inspired community response to HIV/AIDS in Africa

Olivier, Jill; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper has two objectives. The first is to provide a review of the discourses about the religious response to HIV/AIDS in Africa that have emerged from the recent literature, how these discourses has changed over time (from religiophobia to a cautious recognition of the comparative value of...

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