infected with HIV. To identify causal effects, we assume that variation in women's immune system health when HAART was …We study the impact of a medical breakthrough (HAART) on domestic violence and illicit drug use among low-income women … health is objectively measured using white blood cell (CD4) counts. Because the women in our sample were informed of their CD …

treatment of HIV/AIDS. Many supply- and demand-side factors in sub-Saharan Africa could cause smaller than expected …-based triple difference specification, we find that local ART introduction increased the weight of high HIV likelihood adult women … approximately 1 in 6 adults are HIV positive. Combining anthropometric data from national household surveys and a spatially …

, 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 quot;Black Deathquot; episode in Europe, HIV/AIDS will … community HIV prevalence. We show that HIV-infected women have significantly lower fertility. In contrast to Young (2005 …

This paper examines the effect of antidepressant use on the likelihood of being employed among HIV-positive women … antidepressant use has a positive effect on the employment probability of women living with HIV. The proposed instrumental variables … predict antidepressant use independently of outcomes; thus, addressing potential sources of bias -- more depressed women are …

treat HIV/AIDS (HRHA) are one of the main constraints to scaling up ART. We develop a discrete-time Markovian model to … numbers to future HRHA need. Feedback occurs because ART is effective in prolonging the lives of HIV-positive people who need …

Recent breakthroughs in the treatment of HIV have coincided with an increase in infection rates and an eventual slowing … of reductions in HIV mortality. These trends may be causally related, if treatment improves the health and functional … status of HIV+ individuals and allows them to engage in more sexual risk-taking. We examine this hypothesis empirically using …

Without large increases in the number of health workers to treat HIV/AIDS (HAHW), most developing countries will be … deaths among people living with HIV/AIDS. We use Markov Monte Carlo microsimulation to estimate the expected net present …

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 …

administrative data from the Medicaid program to estimate the impact of a particular category of new treatments - HIV antiretroviral …

Beginning in the mid 1980s and extending through the early to mid 1990s, a substantial number of women and children … fraction of women aged 15 to 44 who were eligible for Medicaid coverage for a pregnancy increased on average by 24 percentage …