Because individuals with HIV are more likely to fall into poverty, and the poor may be at higher risk of contracting … HIV, simple estimates of the effect of HIV status on economic outcomes will tend to be biased. In this paper, we use two … econometric methods based on the propensity score to estimate the causal effect of HIV status on employment outcomes in South …

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 … beginning of the divergence in health services between high and low HIV regions to the mid-1990s …

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

Eleven percent of the Malawian population is HIV infected. Eighteen percent of sexual encounters are casual. A condom … (some forms of promoting condoms or marriage), the quantitative exercise suggests that these effects may increase HIV …

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

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 …

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 …

The spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic is still fueled by ignorance in many parts of the world. Filling in knowledge gaps … describe the extent to which HIV/AIDS knowledge is correlated with less risky sexual behavior. We ask: even when there are no … reductions in risky behavior through the channel of HIV-information provision alone …

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