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The spread of HIV and AIDS and risky sexual behavior continues to be a problem in Sub-Saharan African countries despite … very low, the opportunity cost associated with dying from AIDS and foregoing future consumption is very low. We examine how … survival. In the model, agents can receive life insurance benefits if their death is not the result of AIDS. We demonstrate …
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This paper estimates the effect of conflict and conflict-related vulnerability factors, namely sexual violence and economic vulnerability, on HIV prevalence rates. We find that HIV prevalence rates are higher in conflict-affected regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) than in...
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British and German markets. The study estimated Almost Ideal demand system (AIDS), according to seemingly unrelated regression … other variables hold constant and insignificantly statistics. The results of the AIDS model in the British market showed … the France market. The results of the AIDS model in the German market showed France, Holland, and Denmark are the most …
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-CSOs) have benefited from increased funding related to the HIV/AIDS response in Africa. First, we review the literature on …
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There are competing views of how HIV/AIDS affects saving, and to a lesser extent, investment. One argument is that …
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. It will also help in proper distribution of donations and aids to poor citizen within short time aiding the poverty …
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. It aims to apply statistical models for the HIV/AIDS data in Khartoum state centers of testing blood and counseling. AIDS … is recognized as an emerging disease only in the early 1980s, AIDS has rapidly established itself throughout the world …, and is likely to endure and persist well into the 21s century. AIDS has evolved from a mysterious illness to a global …
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A preventive HIV vaccine offers the best hope for ending the AIDS pandemic. Scientific evidence suggests that an HIV …
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The international debate on the question of whether shared and/or public sanitation facilities should be considered improved is still open. The concern is that a shared sanitation facility cannot be maintained in hygienic conditions when used by too many people. The analysis of 1’500 randomly...
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The study of the link between debt and growth has been full of debates, both in theory and empirics. However, there is a growing consensus that the relationship is sensitive to the level of debt. Our paper tries to address the question of non linearity in the long term relationship between...
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