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Have the Educated Changed HIV Risk Behaviors More in Africa?

Gummerson, Elizabeth - 2013

Theory predicts that when new health information becomes available, more educated individuals may adopt healthy behaviors sooner, resulting in lower morbidity and mortality among the highly educated. This may be the case for HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: Recent empirical work shows that incidence...

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Understanding Safe Sex : Gender Narratives of HIV and Pregnancy Prevention by Rural South African School-Going Youth

Harrison, Abigail; Xaba, Nonhlanhla; Kunene, Pinky - 2007

In South Africa's HIV/AIDS epidemic, young people, especially women, are at high risk due to an apparent gap between … and feared pregnancy as well as HIV/AIDS. Both sexes deemed it difficult for girls to initiate condom use, although both …

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Hiv/Aids Pandemic in Africa : Trends and Challenges

Luboobi, Livingston S.; Mugisha, Joseph Y.T - 2005

Three-quarters of the world's AIDS population lives in Sub-Saharan Africa; most have no access to lifesaving drugs … submit designs for a mobile HIV/AIDS health clinic. The pandemic is changing the demographic structure of Africa and wiping … around 45 years or even less. In this paper, we highlight the uniqueness of factors associated with HIV/AIDS pandemic in …

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Scaling Up HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing in Africa : What Can Evaluation Studies Tell Us About Potential Prevention Impacts?

Glick, Peter - 2009

Although there is a widespread belief that scaling up HIV voluntary testing and counseling (VCT) programs in Africa will have large prevention benefits through reductions in risk behaviors, these claims are difficult to establish from existing evaluations of VCT. Considerations from behavioral...

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Fertility and HIV risk in Africa

Yao, Yao - In: Review of economic dynamics 45 (2022), pp. 109-133

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Aid and child health : local effects of aid on stunting in Malawi

Durevall, Dick; Isaksson, Ann-Sofie - 2022

Motivated by a recent setback in the fight against child malnutrition, this study explores whether aid projects help to reduce stunting, or impaired growth, among children in the local area. Focusing on Malawi, a country with very high stunting prevalence and for which we have access to...

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Governing health systems in Africa

Sama, Martyn (contributor); Nguyen, Vinh-Kim (ed.) - 2008

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Aid and child health : local effects of aid on stunting in Malawi

Durevall, Dick; Isaksson, Ann-Sofie - 2022

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A response to COVID-19 and beyond : expanding African capacity in vaccine production

Correa, Carlos María - 2023

The unequal global distribution of vaccines against the deadly COVID-19 virus has cast a spotlight on the lack of access to vaccines on the African continent, and the vulnerability that such a lack places on both the economies of African nations and the health of their people. Various...

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Market segmentation of South African adolescent girls and young women to inform HIV prevention product marketing strategy : a mixed methods study

Crowley, Kenyon; Dugas, Michelle; Gao, Guodong; Burn, Lara - In: Health marketing quarterly 39 (2022) 2, pp. 159-172

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