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Intimate Partner Violence and HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa
Durevall, Dick; Lindskog, Annika - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013
We investigate the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and HIV among married women using Demographic and Health Survey data from ten sub-Saharan African countries, and find a strong association. The association is due to higher HIV risk among violent men; neither women’s...
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The Impact of the AIDS Pandemic on Health Services in Africa: Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys
Case, Anne; Paxson, Christina - In: Demography 48 (2011) 2, pp. 675-697
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A Life Insurance Deterrent to Risky Behavior in Africa
de Araujo, Pedro; Murray, James - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The spread of HIV and AIDS and risky sexual behavior continues to be a problem in Sub-Saharan African countries despite … very low, the opportunity cost associated with dying from AIDS and foregoing future consumption is very low. We examine how … survival. In the model, agents can receive life insurance benefits if their death is not the result of AIDS. We demonstrate …
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Religion and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa : Unbundling Religious Institutions
Mandzik, Amanda; Young, Andrew T. - Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics - 2014
Evidence of relationships between religious affiliation and the African AIDS pandemic is found in the medical, religion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010796083
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Civil war, sexual violence and HIV infections: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kalonda-Kanyama, Isaac - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper estimates the effect of conflict and conflict-related vulnerability factors, namely sexual violence and economic vulnerability, on HIV prevalence rates. We find that HIV prevalence rates are higher in conflict-affected regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) than in...
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Does Openness Matter for Financial Development in Africa?
David, Antonio; Mlachila, Montfort; Moheeput, Ashwin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
This paper analyzes the links between financial and trade openness and financial development in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. It is based on a panel dataset using methods that tackle slope heterogeneity, cross-sectional dependence and non-stationarity, important econometric problems that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790350
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AIDS, “reversal” of the demographic transition and economic development: evidence from Africa
Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - In: Journal of Population Economics 25 (2012) 3, pp. 871-897
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Cost of HIV and determinants of health care costs in HIV-positive patients in Germany: results of the DAGNÄ K3A Study
Mostardt, Sarah; Hanhoff, Nikola; Wasem, Jürgen; … - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 14 (2013) 5, pp. 799-808
Expenditures for HIV-infection are driven mainly by drug costs. We identified several clinical variables influencing the costs of HIV-treatment. This information could assist policymakers when allocating limited health care resources to HIV care. </AbstractSection> Copyright Springer-Verlag 2013
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Atitudes e Discriminação em Relação aos Portadores de HIV/AIDS no Brasil
Cruz, Mércia Santos da; Carvalho, José Raimundo - In: Economia 14 (2013) 1c, pp. 607-629
discriminação em relação a portadores do vírus HIV/AIDS no Brasil. Através de vários modelos logit ordenados (e suas variações …
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The distribution of AIDS over the population in Africa. Hypothesis building from individual answers to a Demographic and Health Survey with an application to Côte d'Ivoire
Cogneau, Denis; Grimm, Michael - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2002
Lack of knowledge about risk differentials regarding AIDS seriously hampers the study of the economic impact of AIDS in … disaggregated mortality tables. One main result of our model is that educated people have a higher risk of dying through AIDS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010861538