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🆕 Why knowing your HIV status can be fatal when there are no treatment options
Today on VoxDev, Alberto Ciancio (University of Glasgow), Fabrice Kämpfen (UCD), Hans-Peter Kohler (UPenn) & Rebecca Thornton (Baylor University) outline research on Malawi: voxdev.org/topic/health...
Today on VoxDev, Alberto Ciancio (University of Glasgow), Fabrice Kämpfen (UCD), Hans-Peter Kohler (UPenn) & Rebecca Thornton (Baylor University) outline research on Malawi: voxdev.org/topic/health...
Why knowing your HIV status can be fatal when there are no treatment options
In 2004, a randomised controlled trial provided individuals in Malawi with information about their HIV status, despite treatment being unavailable in the country at the time. Did knowing one’s diagnos...
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April 2, 2025 at 9:38 AM
🆕 Why knowing your HIV status can be fatal when there are no treatment options
Today on VoxDev, Alberto Ciancio (University of Glasgow), Fabrice Kämpfen (UCD), Hans-Peter Kohler (UPenn) & Rebecca Thornton (Baylor University) outline research on Malawi: voxdev.org/topic/health...
Today on VoxDev, Alberto Ciancio (University of Glasgow), Fabrice Kämpfen (UCD), Hans-Peter Kohler (UPenn) & Rebecca Thornton (Baylor University) outline research on Malawi: voxdev.org/topic/health...
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for those who do not know about DHS - the program funded extensive nationally representative surveys capturing households' demographics, but especially health (including births and mortality), health access, and utilization. Two things made DHS so incredibly useful:
Whatever you may think about foreign aid, terminating the USAID-funded Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) program is a terrible loss to the data-driven research community.
March 4, 2025 at 5:02 AM
for those who do not know about DHS - the program funded extensive nationally representative surveys capturing households' demographics, but especially health (including births and mortality), health access, and utilization. Two things made DHS so incredibly useful:
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Imagine knowing you are HIV+, treatment exists, but you have no hope of getting it.
*In Malawi circa 2004, that knowledge alone killed 20 percent of HIV+ people within 2 years.*
ARVs changed things.
USAID cuts could take us back to that kind of despair.
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
*In Malawi circa 2004, that knowledge alone killed 20 percent of HIV+ people within 2 years.*
ARVs changed things.
USAID cuts could take us back to that kind of despair.
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
February 28, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Imagine knowing you are HIV+, treatment exists, but you have no hope of getting it.
*In Malawi circa 2004, that knowledge alone killed 20 percent of HIV+ people within 2 years.*
ARVs changed things.
USAID cuts could take us back to that kind of despair.
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
*In Malawi circa 2004, that knowledge alone killed 20 percent of HIV+ people within 2 years.*
ARVs changed things.
USAID cuts could take us back to that kind of despair.
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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🚨 Job Alert 🚨
4-year postdoc position to work on my ERC project HARSH - Uncovering the Roots of Harsh Parenting.
📍 Dep. of Economics @DSE_Unibo, Bologna, Italy 🇮🇹
📅 Deadline: March 14, 2025
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4-year postdoc position to work on my ERC project HARSH - Uncovering the Roots of Harsh Parenting.
📍 Dep. of Economics @DSE_Unibo, Bologna, Italy 🇮🇹
📅 Deadline: March 14, 2025
💡 Learn more and apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
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February 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
🚨 Job Alert 🚨
4-year postdoc position to work on my ERC project HARSH - Uncovering the Roots of Harsh Parenting.
📍 Dep. of Economics @DSE_Unibo, Bologna, Italy 🇮🇹
📅 Deadline: March 14, 2025
💡 Learn more and apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
#econtwitter #econjobmarket #ejm
4-year postdoc position to work on my ERC project HARSH - Uncovering the Roots of Harsh Parenting.
📍 Dep. of Economics @DSE_Unibo, Bologna, Italy 🇮🇹
📅 Deadline: March 14, 2025
💡 Learn more and apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
#econtwitter #econjobmarket #ejm