Increased HIV risk creates incentives for people with low sexual activity to reduce their activity, but may make high … health efforts may affect long-run HIV prevalence …

partners perversely increases the average probability of HIV infection in the pool of available partners. Since this increases …

. These methods are assessed in light of key features of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and of data on the epidemic; they are also … projection errors. Rather, the overprojections appear to be mainly the result of a considerable reduction in the rate of new HIV … knowledge about the process generating AIDS cases and that incorporates readily available information about rates of new HIV …

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 …

leading cause of adult mortality in the region, HIV/AIDS, and may increase risky sexual behavior. We examine the association … between schooling/material standard of living and HIV risk using data from more than 500,000 respondents in 32 sub … without improvements in living standards or secondary school completion might not mitigate HIV transmission …

data on elections to the U.S House of Representatives and leveraging cross-district variation in HIV/AIDS mortality during … the period 1983-1987, we document the effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on votes received by Democratic and Republican … candidates. Beginning with the 1994 elections, there is a strong, positive association between HIV/AIDS mortality and the vote …

of these effects vary sharply. Cardiovascular disease, cancer, and HIV are the most significant sources of mortality rate …

We study the impact of expert reviews on the demand for HIV treatments. A novel feature of our study is that we observe … two reviews for each HIV drug and focus attention on consumer responses when experts disagree. Reviews are provided by … both a doctor and an activist in the HIV lifestyle magazine Positively Aware, which we merge with detailed panel data on …