Using randomized methodologies, we study a common community HIV/AIDS program that seeks to promote HIV testing by … on HIV testing rates. We provide evidence of likely mechanisms behind the program's negative effect: it inadvertently … increased misinformation about HIV, and worsened HIV-related stigmatizing attitudes. Subsequent household-level randomized …

changing attitudes and behaviors related to HIV/AIDS. Using a simple model we show that "edutainment" can work through an … the show. We find significant improvements in knowledge and attitudes towards HIV and risky sexual behavior. Treated … subjects are twice as likely to get tested for HIV eight months after the intervention. We also find reductions in STDs among …

calibration of the global demand for HIV pharmaceuticals, we demonstrate the dramatically sharper analysis achievable with the new … bounds, allowing us to pinpoint potential deadweight loss at 62% of the global gain from curing HIV. We use the calibration … an HIV drug so high that only 4% of the infected population worldwide would purchase, matching actual drug prices and …

In 2007, approximately one in five children in Zambia lived with an HIV positive adult. We identify the effect of adult … availability with two national household surveys that include HIV testing. Through a triple difference specification, we find that … the availability of ART increased the likelihood that children in households with HIV positive household heads started …

This paper investigates the effects of health insurance and new antiviral treatments on HIV testing rates among the U … years 1993 to 2002. We estimate recursive bivariate probit models with insurance coverage and HIV testing as the dependent … insurance coverage. The results suggest that (a) insurance coverage increases HIV testing rates, (b) insurance coverage …

. Calibrations suggest that skewness in the U.S. distribution of HIV risk would lead firms to earn only half the revenue from a …

Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) is the single most effective HIV prevention intervention in …

We document the impact of the AIDS crisis on non-AIDS related health services in fourteen sub-Saharan African countries … of health care over this period. The most recent DHS survey for each country collected data on HIV prevalence, which … allows us to examine the association between HIV burden and health care. We find that erosion of health services is highly …

, followed by a rise in human capital accumulation and economic growth. The HIV/AIDS epidemic threatens to reverse this path. A … recent paper by Young (2005), however, suggests that similar to the "Black Death" episode in Europe, HIV/AIDS will actually … rounds of the Demographic and Health Surveys which link an individual woman's fertility outcomes to her HIV status based on …

The response of sexual behavior to HIV in Africa is an important input to predicting the path of the epidemic and to … response should be larger for those with lower non-HIV mortality risks and those who are richer. I estimate behavioral response … using a new instrumental variables strategy, instrumenting for HIV prevalence with distance to the origin of the virus. I …