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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 …
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Objective The authors evaluated the use of conditional cash transfers as an HIV and sexually transmitted infection …, Trichomonas vaginalis and Mycoplasma genitalium. The authors also tested for HIV, herpes simplex virus 2 and syphilis at baseline … tool in HIV and sexually transmitted infections prevention. Additional larger study would be useful to clarify the effect …
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HIV/AIDS stigmatizing attitudes and their consequences on preventative behaviors are among the most poorly understood … Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in Lesotho, where HIV/AIDS is a pervasive problem. We find that HIV/AIDS stigmatizing … aspects of the AIDS epidemic. This paper analyzes the socioeconomic determinants of discriminating attitudes toward people …
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HIV-prevention strategies have yielded only limited success so far in slowing down the AIDS epidemic. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460794
HIV/AIDS stigmatizing attitudes and their consequences on preventative behaviors are among the most poorly understood … Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in Lesotho, where HIV/AIDS is a pervasive problem. We find that HIV/AIDS stigmatizing … aspects of the AIDS epidemic. This paper analyzes the socio-economic determinants of discriminating attitudes towards people …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014129394
Female sex workers are a key population who experience a disproportionately high burden of HIV and sexually transmitted … HIV and sexually transmitted infections; however, few studies have examined a lottery-based incentive mechanism or been … conducted with female sex workers. This paper examines the effect of a lottery intervention on the combined incidence of HIV and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014381302
We conducted a unique randomized experiment to estimate the impact of alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either conditional or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282415
We conducted a unique randomized experiment to estimate the impact of alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either conditional or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646290
Using data we collected in rural Burkina Faso, we examine how children's cognitive abilities influence resource constrained households' decisions to invest in their education. We use a direct measure of child ability for all primary school-aged children, regardless of current school enrollment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278808
Using data we collected in rural Burkina Faso, we examine how children's cognitive abilities influence resource constrained households' decisions to invest in their education. We use a direct measure of child ability for all primary school-aged children, regardless of current school enrollment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727775