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We explore the spatial distribution of orphans in two areas of Malawi. We first review pertinent themes in qualitative …
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transmission, incorporates behavioural input data derived from the second round of the Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change … Project, which was conducted in three areas of rural Malawi in 2001. We estimate that HIV infection is present in between 13 …
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In this paper, I investigate the ways that young men in rural southern Malawi talk about HIV and their own perceptions … of risk. I relate these findings first to evolving gender relations in Malawi during the AIDS epidemic, and second to HIV …
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AIDS morbidity and mortality are expected to have a large impact on households’ labor supply in rural Malawi since … unique combination of quantitative and qualitative data, including biomarkers for HIV, collected by the Malawi Diffusion and …
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of human interviewers. This study uses data collected from 90 never-married young adults in rural Malawi to compare …
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Malawi, this paper finds that women’s real and perceived anticipation of future health shocks has a positive impact on …
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We estimate age-specific HIV incidence and prevalence in Tanzania and Uganda in the late 1990s and forecast forward assuming no change in incidence. Comparisons between our forecasts of HIV prevalence and direct measures from the HIV/AIDS Indicator and Demographic and Health Surveys in the...
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This article presents an extension of the cohort component model of population projection (CCMPP) first formulated by Heuveline that is capable of modeling a population affected by HIV. We extend this work by developing the Leslie matrix representation of the CCMPP that greatly facilitates...
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remarriage in rural Malawi. Life table probabilities of divorce range from 40 to 65 percent and are among the highest on the … importance of kinship systems and female empowerment, but the mechanism underlying the high divorce rates in Malawi seems to be …
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