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the most vulnerable populations for acquiring HIV/AIDS. Existing studies on HIV impact in the workplace have largely …
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Demographic and Health Survey data from nine African countries make it clear that HIV/AIDS prevention knowledge has …
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case of HIV/AIDS. The paper compares Brazil and South Africa as two cases in which the relationship between national …-transfer, organisational, legal, and discursive. The main finding is that despite a huge variety of global actors operating in the field of HIV/AIDS … their fight against HIV/AIDS. In contrast to Brazil, South Africa's HIV/AIDS policy has for a long time been dominated by …
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. 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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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 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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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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Health-maximizing and welfare-maximizing behaviors can be at odds, especially among disadvantaged groups, generating health disparities. We estimate a lifecycle model of medication and labor supply decisions using data on HIV-positive men. We evaluate an effective HIV treatment innovation that...
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This paper establishes new evidence that an enduring societal factor - genetic diversity - is linked with HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa. We show that higher genetic diversity has a mitigating effect on to the spread of HIV. Importantly, the linked between genetic diversity and HIV...
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Longer life expectancy can affect individuals’ incentives to work, save and marry, net of any changes in their underlying health. We test this hypothesis by using the sudden arrival of a new treatment in 1995 that dramatically increased life expectancy for HIV-infected individuals. We compare...
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