January 2000 - In Tanzania, a poor country experiencing a severe AIDS epidemic, the children whose health is hit hardest by the death of a parent or other adult are those in the poorest households, those with uneducated parents, and those with the least access to health care. Three important...

Este trabajo evalua la eficacia de la asistencia que el Banco Mundial entrega a los paises en materia de VIH/SIDA, la cual consiste en dialogos para la formulacion de politicas, trabajos analiticos y financiamiento y cuyo objetivo explicito es la mitigacion del alcance o el impacto de la...

Mortality of parents and other adults due to the African AIDS epidemic could reduce children's primary schooling by reducing households' ability to pay fees, raising the opportunity cost of children's time, and leaving orphaned children with guardians who care less about their education than...

The elderly are one of the key groups of survivors who may be adversely affected by the death of prime-age adults from AIDS. We use a longitudinal survey of households from Northwestern Tanzania in 1991-94 to compare the activities and welfare of the elderly in households before and after the...

Underutilization of medical facilities in African countries is widely believed to be a result of consumer disappointments with quality of care. This paper uses data from a randomized household survey, enriched with exogenous information on health facility attributes, to examine more deeply the...