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AIDS remains amongst the leading causes of death globally. Identity is the primary mode of understanding HIV and … strengthen the response to HIV and AIDS. I conclude this article by offering strategies to minimize the downsides of identity …
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leading cause of adult mortality in the region, HIV/AIDS, and may increase risky sexual behavior. We examine the association …
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This paper discusses the paradoxical trajectory that China's HIV epidemic has taken and the important role that its border with Burma plays in determining this unique epidemic pattern. After providing some brief background on the region that serves as the ‘ground zero' for China's HIV epidemic...
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Epidemics have disrupted lives for centuries with deleterious human capital and economic repercussions. In this paper, we investigate how epidemics episodes have impacted school dropouts in developing countries, considering 623 epidemics episodes across countries from 1970 to 2019. Our estimates...
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China has made significant progress developing its national policies on HIV/AIDS in recent years. This increased … national commitment to fighting HIV/AIDS has been reflected in a rapidly expanding AIDS budget. Central government resources … devoted to AIDS nearly tripled between 2004 and 2005, and have increased 60-fold relative to their level in 2000. The national …
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and economics (among other fields), I propose a framework adapted from earlier work on the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Analysis of …
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HIV/AIDS was the main cause of death among young adults in the 1990s. The sexual freedom from the rise of … investigate whether the HIV/AIDS epidemic from the 1980s onward, a non-monetary shock, affected people's preferences for marriage … infected by AIDS, the expected payoff of people who got married in the first period increased. Then, using unique Brazilian …
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Developing countries are facing the Covid-19 epidemic with particular challenges, such as their economic and labor force composition. In this research I will extend the so-called SIR-macro model with demand and supply effects to study how the size of the informal sector impact the ability of...
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The potential epidemiological impact of preventive HIV vaccines on the HIV epidemic in Southern India is examined using a methematical deterministic dynamic compartmental model. Various assumptions about the degree of protection offered by such a vaccine, the extent of immunological response of...
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