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Marriage in the time of the HIV/AIDS epidemic

Hakak, Lorena; Pereda, Paula Carvalho - 2021

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The economic impact of AIDS treatment: Labor supply in Western Kenya

Thirumurthy, Harsha; Graff Zivin, Joshua; Goldstein, Markus - 2006

Using longitudinal survey data from western Kenya, this paper estimates the economic impacts of antiretroviral treatment. The responses in two important outcomes are studied: (1) labor supply of adult AIDS patients receiving treatment; and (2) labor supply of patients' household members. We find...

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The Heart in Haart: Quality of Life of Patients Enrolled in the Public Sector Antiretroviral Treatment Programme in the Free State Province of South Africa

Booysen, F; Rensburg, H Van; Bachmann, M; Louwagie, G; … - In: Social Indicators Research 81 (2007) 2, pp. 283-329

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A peer adherence support intervention to improve the antiretroviral treatment outcomes of HIV patients in South Africa: The moderating role of family dynamics

Wouters, Edwin; Masquillier, Caroline; Ponnet, Koen; le … - In: Social Science & Medicine 113 (2014) C, pp. 145-153

Given the severe shortage of human resources in the healthcare sector in many countries with high HIV prevalence …

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“Life is not a rehearsal, it's a performance”: An ethnographic enquiry into the subjectivities of children and adolescents living with antiretroviral treatment in northeastern Tanz...

Mattes, Dominik - In: Children and Youth Services Review 45 (2014) C, pp. 28-37

Antiretroviral treatment (ART) enables ever more HIV-positive children in sub-Saharan Africa to grow into adulthood … and counterproductive power dynamics within medical institutions. By briefly outlining children's enrolment in HIV … treatment in a highly frequented treatment center in northeastern Tanzania, in this article I demonstrate the complexity of HIV …

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Treating AIDS in complex emergencies

Ford, Nathan - In: Progress in Development Studies 9 (2009) 1, pp. 55-61

Human Immunodefficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is directly responsible for increased … disrupted coping mechanisms. However, the need to provide antiretroviral therapy as part of a comprehensive response to HIV …

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Growth and enduring epidemic diseases

Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans - 2006 - This version: May 2006

This paper studies the formation of human capital and its transmission across generations when premature adult mortality is a salient feature of the demographic landscape, either permanently or in the form of a long-period wave that follows the outbreak of an epidemic. We establish several...