support for future policies. The two-way relationship between prevention policy and awareness generates two stable steady …-state equilibria: high awareness/slow prevalence and low awareness/high prevalence. The low-prevalence equilibrium is fragile: the … framework extends naturally to a large class of public health policies under which awareness partly follows from the policies …

campaigns raise awareness of the current generation, which then partially transmit this awareness to the next generation, thus … creating political support for the next-period awareness campaigns. The economy has two steady-state equilibria: the "good" one … (with high awareness and low prevalence) and the "bad" one (low awareness, high prevalence). The "good" equilibrium is …