Year: 2010
Type: report
Abstract: Uganda is widely viewed as a public health success for curtailing its HIV/AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s.We investigate the factors contributing to this decline.We first build a model of HIV transmission.Calibration of the model indicates that reduced pre-marital sexual activity among young women is the most important factor in the decline in HIV.We next explore what led young women to change their behavior.We estimate that approximately one-third the reduction in HIV in this cohort and almost 20 percent of the overall HIV decline was due to a gender-targeted education policy.
DOI: 10.3386/w16171
Authors: Marcella Alsan, David Cutler
Institutions: National Bureau of Economic Research, Harvard University
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1496879632