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Eleven percent of the Malawian population is HIV infected. Eighteen percent of sexual encounters are casual. A condom is used one quarter of the time. A choice-theoretic general equilibrium search model is constructed to analyze the Malawian epidemic. In the developed framework, people select...
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and economics (among other fields), I propose a framework adapted from earlier work on the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Analysis of …
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leading cause of adult mortality in the region, HIV/AIDS, and may increase risky sexual behavior. We examine the association …
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Using randomized methodologies, we study a common community HIV/AIDS program that seeks to promote HIV testing by …
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changing attitudes and behaviors related to HIV/AIDS. Using a simple model we show that "edutainment" can work through an …
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We document the impact of the AIDS crisis on non-AIDS related health services in fourteen sub-Saharan African countries … correlated with increases in AIDS prevalence. Regions of countries that have light AIDS burdens have witnessed small or no …
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HIV/AIDS, but very little is known about the impact of this intervention on the welfare of children in the households of …
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HIV/AIDS has been one of the largest public health crises in recent history, and the U.S. federal government has spent ….S. cities through the Ryan White CARE Act, which is the largest program for combating HIV/AIDS in the United States. The … that resulted in large funding differences among cities that were originally on parallel HIV/AIDS trajectories and finds …
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Under asymmetric information about sexual history, sexual activity creates externalities. Abstinence by those with few partners perversely increases the average probability of HIV infection in the pool of available partners. Since this increases prevalence among the high activity people who...
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HIV-prevention strategies have yielded only limited success so far in slowing down the AIDS epidemic. This paper …
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