Southern African institutions involved in disaster management face two major new threats: the HIV/AIDS pandemic …, the authors find evidence of a growing gap between demand for their services and capacity to satisfy that demand. HIV …

areas of health, such as sexual and reproductive health, and HIV prevention, in particular, has also increased. Evaluations … promote the prevention of sexually transmitted infections and HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa. …

This paper attempts to quantify the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on social capital with cross-country data. Using … controlling for HIV prevalence, institutional quality, social distance, and economic indicators. The results obtained indicate … that HIV prevalence affects social capital negatively. The empirical estimates suggest that a one standard deviation …

Adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS and other diseases is posited to affect children through a number of pathways. On top …

This paper attempts to quantify the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on social capital with cross-country data. It … estimates reduced-form regressions of the main determinants of social capital controlling for HIV prevalence, institutional … HIV prevalence affects social capital negatively. The empirical estimates suggest that a one standard deviation increase …

This paper analyzes the socioeconomic determinants of HIV infection and related sexual behaviors using the 2004 Lesotho … associated with HIV infection (although not always significantly) and it strongly predicts preventive behaviors. The findings …. This is an important source of vulnerability that should be addressed in prevention efforts. The paper also analyzes HIV …

This paper analyzes the determinants of HIV infection and associated sexual behaviors using data from the first five … Demographic and Health Surveys to include HIV testing for a representative sample of the adult population. Emerging from a wealth … significant risk-factor, as evidenced by the results on HIV infection and on sexual behaviors. Contrary to prima facie evidence …

Most analyses of the determinants of HIV infection are performed at the individual level. The recent Demographic and … Health Surveys which include results from HIV tests allow studying HIV infection at the level of the cohabiting couple. The … surprising findings about the dynamics of the HIV/AIDS epidemic which have important implications for policy. First, at least two …

The authors report results from a randomized evaluation comparing three school-based HIV/AIDS interventions in Kenya …: (1) training teachers in the Kenyan Government's HIV/AIDS-education curriculum; (2) encouraging students to debate the … role of condoms and to write essays on how to protect themselves against HIV/AIDS; and (3) reducing the cost of education …