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4-22-05 HIV/AIDS Prevention Knowledge & Behavior
April 22, 2005
     
African HIV/AIDS Prevention Knowledge, Prevention Behavior and Attitudes Toward Testing
Presented by Dr. David Sahn, Department of Economics, Cornell University
Co-sponsored by EGAT’s Poverty Analysis and Social Safety Net (PASSN) and HIV/AIDS Teams

The discussion examined changes over time in HIV/AIDS prevention knowledge, prevention behavior in terms of the use of condoms, and testing behavior and attitudes toward testing.  This work takes advantage of the fact that there are now a number of African countries with more than one round of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHSs) with comparable HIV-related information.  In addition the discussion asked how changes in knowledge and testing behavior are distributed across the distributions of schooling and household income as well as by gender and rural vs. urban location. This question was addressed descriptively and econometrically, the latter by estimating and comparing statistically HIV knowledge and behavior 'returns' to schooling, wealth, and age in early and later survey years.

Dr. Sahn has a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Masters of Public Health from the University of Michigan.  Prior to coming to Cornell in 1988, he served as an economist at the World Bank and a Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute.  He has written widely on issues of poverty, inequality, education and health and has been actively engaged in policy dialogue with government policy makers and other stakeholders, helping to translate research findings into practical measures to alleviate poverty and increase economic growth and opportunity.  He is dedicated to providing technical assistance and training to African researchers, both through his active participation in the African Economic Research Consortium and his role as director of the USAID-funded SAGA (Strategies and Analysis for Growth and Access) project.
 
 



Resources
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Changes in HIV/AIDS Knowledge and Testing Behavior In Africa
A SAGA Working Paper by Drs. Sahn and Glick  

Summary of Dr. Sahn's Presentation
HIV/AIDS Prevention Knowledge and Behavior  


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