HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa has been closely associated with adverse economic effects, and could thwart the success of … poverty reduction initiatives. HIV/AIDS is fast eroding the health benefits, which Kenya gained in the first two decades of … independence. The paper explores the different channels through which HIV/AIDS affects economic growth in a low-income country like …

transmission by discouraging both honest reporting and a society's acceptance of AIDS education, whereas association stigma has an … acceptance, but it also compromises a society's acceptance of AIDS education. Our relatively simple evolutionary/SIR model offers …

-stage hurdle model to estimate the effect of media sources such as newspapers, radios and television on AIDS-related knowledge …, albeit quantitatively small, suggest, even if indirectly, possible problems faced by AIDS campaigns and government programs …

-retroviral therapy (ART) to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic - in Africa. To identify the effect, we combine exogenous variation in the scope …

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 …