longitudinal data from the Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project, which contain family rosters, information on HIV testing …

are important systematic country effects. Malawi, where maize is the main staple, emerges as exhibiting the most acute …

The AIDS epidemic threatens Kenya with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback to … counterfactual in which there is no epidemic. Although AIDS does not bring about a catastrophic economic collapse, it does cause …

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 …