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Cofactor Infections and HIV Epidemics in Developing Countries : Implications for Treatment

Sawers, Larry; Stillwaggon, Eileen; Hertz, Tom - 2010

This article shows that the burden of certain tropical disease infections, after controlling for other factors, is positively correlated with HIV prevalence. Using cross-national data and multivariate linear regression analysis, we investigate the determinants of HIV prevalence in low- and...

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Empirical Data Analysis of HIV/AIDS in Sudan with Reference to Khartoum State

Mohamed, Issam A.W - 2011

. It aims to apply statistical models for the HIV/AIDS data in Khartoum state centers of testing blood and counseling. AIDS … is recognized as an emerging disease only in the early 1980s, AIDS has rapidly established itself throughout the world …, and is likely to endure and persist well into the 21s century. AIDS has evolved from a mysterious illness to a global …

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Absenteeism and Separation from the Labour Force : What is the HIV Impact?

Kumaranayake, Lilani; Churchyard, Gavin; Charalambous, … - 2007

the most vulnerable populations for acquiring HIV/AIDS. Existing studies on HIV impact in the workplace have largely …

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Changes in HIV/AIDS Knowledge and Testing Behavior in Africa : How Much and for Whom?

Glick, Peter; Sahn, David E. - 2010

Demographic and Health Survey data from nine African countries make it clear that HIV/AIDS prevention knowledge has …

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Sex Workers and the Cost of Safe Sex : The Compensating Differential for Condom Use Among Calcutta Prostitutes

Rao, Vijayendra; Gupta, Indrani; Lokshin, Michael; … - 2003

important mode of HIV-AIDS transmission in developing countries is unprotected sex with sex workers. However, anecdotal evidence … size of this compensating differential has important implications for AIDS policy. This paper uses a unique data set from a …

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Sex Workers and the Cost of Safe Sex : The Compensating Differential for Condom Use Among Calcutta Prostitutes

Rao, Vijayendra; Gupta, Indrani; Lokshin, Michael; … - 2004

sex by commercial sex workers is considered central to preventing the transmission of AIDS in developing countries - yet … practice of safe sex by commercial sex workers is considered central to preventing the transmission of AIDS in developing … providing information about the AIDS virus and about safe sex practices. The program, instituted in 1992, was not systematically …

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Sexually Transmitted Infections, Behavior Change and the Hiv/Aids Epidemic

Oster, Emily F. - 2009

Forty million people are infected with HIV worldwide; twenty-five million of them are in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper addresses the question of why Africa has been so heavily affected by HIV, and what explains the variation within Africa. I present a model that decomposes epidemic level into...

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How Beliefs About HIV Status Affect Risky Behaviors : Evidence from Malawi, Seventh Version

de Paula, Aureo - 2011

This paper examines how beliefs about own HIV status affect decisions to engage in risky sexual behavior, as measured by having extramarital sex and/or multiple sex partners. The empirical analysis is based on a panel survey of males from the 2006 and 2008 rounds of the Malawi Diffusion and...

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The Power of the Church - The Role of Roman Catholic Teaching in the Transmission of HIV

Stroebel, Johannes - 2012

We use the appointment of a Kenyan Roman Catholic archbishop as a natural experiment to analyze the impact of church authorities' teaching on sexual behavior. Using a triple-difference approach, we find that following the archbishop's counter-doctrinal assertion that condom use within a marriage...

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HIV and Fertility in Africa : First Evidence from Population Based Surveys

Juhn, Chinhui - 2009

, followed by a rise in human capital accumulation and economic growth. The HIV/AIDS epidemic threatens to reverse this path. A … recent paper by Young (2005), however, suggests that similar to the Black Death episode in Europe, HIV/AIDS will actually …

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