In this dissertation we present mathematical models that help answer health policy questions relating to HIV and … Hepatitis C (HCV), and analyze bias in Markov models of disease progression. We begin by developing a Markov decision process … model that examines the timing of testing and treatment for diseases with asymptomatic periods such as HCV. We explicitly …

The Demographic and Health Surveys from Lesotho, Zimbabwe, and Malawi reveal that a significant proportion of HIV … nonparametric model to estimate the proportion of HIV infections associated with sexual activity under different assumptions on data … accuracy. It shows that there is an inverse relation between data accuracy and importance of sexual HIV transmission. If all …

A dynamical model that describes the interaction of the HIV virus and the immune system is presented. The effect of …

We study the long-term determinants of the high rates of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly among women … trade. First we show that, in clusters where polygyny is more widespread, HIV infection rates are higher. By instrumenting … polygyny is likely to affect HIV infection by focusing on sexual behavior, as captured by the intensity of sexual activity and …

HIV continues to cause the largest number of disability-adjusted life years of any disease in HIV hyperendemic … countries (i.e., countries with an adult HIV prevalence >15%). We compare the benefits and costs of two proven biological … interventions to reduce the health losses due to the HIV epidemic in hyperendemic countries from 2015 through 2030: 1) increasing …

Background: This article examines young people's preferences for integrated family planning (FP) and HIV services in … planning young people value confidentiality and the availability of HIV services including HIV counselling and testing (HCT …) and HIV treatment, though significant observable and unobservable heterogeneity is present. Female respondents and those …

There is growing evidence that HIV behaviour change interventions can increase knowledge but have little effect on … behaviour. We revisit this conclusion by evaluating a popular educational tool for teaching young people about HIV – the ‘Join …

This paper studies the impact of antiretroviral therapies (ARVs) on HIV testing and risky sexual behavior. I use data …

administrative data from California's Medicaid program to estimate the impact of HIV antiretroviral treatments (ARVs). We use data on …