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We present a dynamical model for the spread of HIV in a finite discrete population of size n represented by the set V …’s sexual partners, and a reasonable amount of the influence of noninfectious HIV positive individuals on HIV infectious … certain network properties, is then used to analyse and investigate the existence of epidemic and stability in the HIV …
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Als Folge der jüngsten gesundheitspolitischen Reformen in Deutschland scheint ein Wan-del in der HIV …Taking into account recent health care reforms in Germany a change of the structure in the provision of HIV health care … health-political and health-economic challenges for HIV health care. As a result chal-lenges for five stakeholder groups …
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This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...
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Does democracy help Kenyan citizens to struggle against the HIV epidemic? Yet, very little attention has been devoted … to establish whether political regimes react differently to the HIV infection. Using an electoral definition of democracy …-in-difference design that draws upon pre-existing variations in HIV intensity and cohort's exposure to democracy, we find that a person …
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improved health. In this paper, we study how individuals diagnosed with HIV reacted to the introduction of HIV medicine in 1995 …, which dramatically increased their life expectancy. To isolate the incentive effect, we use Danish register data on HIV … whose health had not yet been affected by their HIV diagnosis. Our results show that increases in the life expectancy of HIV …
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This paper studies the relationship between civil war and HIV/AIDS in Burundi. It contributes to the empirical … directly related to HIV/AIDS or correlated with unobservables. The case of Burundi provides fruitful grounds of analysis, as … conclusions are likely to serve as valuable insights in Burundi and other fragile countries with similar HIV/AIDS policy agendas …
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Background: The lower sales price of generic lamivudine has caused healthcare administrators to consider abolishing fixed-dose antiretroviral combinations (FDCs) that contain lamivudine and emtricitabine. The alternative is to administer the individual components of the FDCs separately, thus...
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. Counterintuitively, but consistent with historical narratives and theoretical predictions, HIV prevalence is lower today on the former … - which promote HIV's spread - have long been smaller in this region, as circular migration allowed much younger men to afford …
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that randomly offered HIV testing appointments and hard commitment devices to high-risk men in Malawi. Appointments more …
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This paper uses five life histories from three locations in Zimbabwe - one peri-urban, one urban and one rural to provide a window on current processes of impoverishment and adverse coping. Each case and location highlight key aspects of Zimbabwe's recent economic and political turmoil. Together...
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