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The literature shows that divorced, separated, and widowed individuals in Africa are at significantly increased risk for HIV. Using nationally representative data from 13 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, this paper confirms that formerly married individuals are at significantly higher risk for...
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changes in risk. In particular, risky behaviors increase for men who believe, wrongly, that AIDS can be cured, while risky … behaviors increase for women who believe, correctly, that antiretroviral therapy can treat AIDS but cannot cure it. The findings …
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welfare of households living with HIV/AIDS. The analysis finds that there has been a real deterioration of welfare in terms of …
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affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Mortality rates in the highest HIV-prevalence countries of southern Africa exceed those in …
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' migration into South Africa has increased the spread of HIV/AIDS in their countries of origin. Consistent with this …
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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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Information, education, communication and interventions based on behavioral-change communication have had success in increasing the awareness of HIV. But these strategies alone have been less successful in changing risky sexual behavior. This paper addresses this issue by exploring the link...
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