HIV Risk and Adolescent Behaviors in Africa
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HIV Risk and Adolescent Behaviors in Africa.
More than 23 million people are estimated to be living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, concentrated primarily in East and Southern Africa (UNAIDS 2012). There are a number of noncompeting explanations for the crisis along the “AIDS Belt,” which runs from Kenya south through to Lesotho, Swaziland, and South Africa. These include the behaviors of drivers moving goods (Oster 2012); behaviors of mi...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Economic Review
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0002-8282
DOI: 10.1257/aer.103.3.433