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 …

increasing the awareness of HIV. But these strategies alone have been less successful in changing risky sexual behavior. This …, uncertainty in the lives of those at risk for HIV may affect how intentions are formed. Characterize this uncertainty by … understanding the reasons for discrepancies between intentions and actions may help improve the design of HIV …

HIV-prevention strategies have yielded only limited success so far in slowing down the AIDS epidemic. This paper …

contributor to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This paper uses data from a panel of women in rural Tanzania whose primary occupation is …

information and changing attitudes and behaviors related to HIV/AIDS. Using a simple model, the paper shows that ?edutainment? can … finds significant improvements in knowledge and attitudes toward HIV and risky sexual behavior. Treated subjects are twice … as likely to get tested for HIV eight months after the intervention. The study also finds reductions in sexually …

Financial incentives are a promising HIV prevention strategy. This paper assesses the effect on HIV incidence of a … for sexually transmitted infections. The intervention resulted in a 21.4 percent reduction in HIV incidence over two years … linking sexual behavior to HIV incidence and finds that risk-loving individuals reduce the number of unprotected sexual acts …

collected in Mozambique in 2007 and 2008. The survey sampled both households of randomly selected HIV positive individuals and …, prevention programs need to include educational messages about antiretroviral therapy, and address the changing beliefs about HIV …

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

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 …