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Access to antiretroviral treatment has expanded rapidly in South Africa, making it the country in the world with the largest treatment program. As antiretroviral treatment coverage continues to rise in resource-constrained settings, effective community-based adherence support interventions are...
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Financial incentives are a promising HIV prevention strategy. This paper assesses the effect on HIV incidence of a … for sexually transmitted infections. The intervention resulted in a 21.4 percent reduction in HIV incidence over two years … linking sexual behavior to HIV incidence and finds that risk-loving individuals reduce the number of unprotected sexual acts …
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risk of HIV infection. The study enrolled 2,399 participants in 10 villages in rural southwest Tanzania. The intervention …
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An accurate measurement of HIV incidence is a key for policy makers and HIV program managers directing national HIV … response. However, there is no perfect method to measure or estimate the rate at which new HIV infections occur in a population …. This review compiles and triangulates longitudinal HIV incidence and prevalence data from published studies and trials …
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For young adults living in countries with AIDS epidemics, getting an HIV test may influence near-term decisions, such … adolescence to adulthood, have long-term implications on well-being and directly affect a person's risk of contracting HIV. Using … testing of young adults for HIV on these decisions. The results show negligible intent-to-treat effect of HIV testing on …
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An extensive multi-disciplinary literature examines the effects of learning one's HIV status on subsequent risky sexual … study investigates the effects of a randomly assigned home based HIV testing and counseling (HTC) intervention on risky … sexual behaviors and schooling investments among school-age females in Malawi. The study finds no overall effects on HIV …
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behaviors, in domains as varied as HIV/AIDS, drugs, alcohol, smoking, obesity, or early marriage prevention. This paper presents …
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Adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS and other diseases is posited to affect children through a number of pathways. On top …
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The authors use a 13-year panel of individuals in Tanzania to assess how adult mortality shocks affect both short and long-run consumption growth of surviving household members. Using unique data which tracks individuals from 1991 to 2004, they examine consumption growth, controlling for a set...
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The AIDS epidemic threatens Kenya with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback to the formation of human capital and economic growth. To investigate this possibility, the authors develop a model with three overlapping generations, calibrate it to the...
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