Using economics to fight AIDS
I gave one of the keynotes (based on joint work with Markus Goldstein) at the recent ICASA 2008 in Dakar, Senegal on the title of this post. The fight against AIDS involves allocating scarce resources...
View ArticleAfrica: Least integrated but worst hit by the crisis
Even though it is the least integrated with the global economy, Africa may be the worst hit region by the global economic crisis. Each of the four channels through which the crisis is affecting Africa...
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Why aid to Africa must increase
In rich countries, when economic growth declines by three or four percentage points, people lose their jobs and possibly their houses, but they regain them when the economy rebounds. In poor African...
View ArticleIs male promiscuity the main route of HIV/AIDS transmission in Africa?
Sexual transmission is considered to be the main source of the spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa1.
View ArticleHIV/AIDS, the silent war in Africa
Under-5 mortality is often used—perhaps implicitly—as a measure of “population health”. But what is happening to adult mortality in Africa? In a recent working paperi , we combine data from 84...
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Professional Hazard: Migrant Miners Are More Likely to Be Infected with HIV
Swaziland and Lesotho are among the countries with the highest HIV prevalence in the world.Recent nationally representative estimates reveal an adult HIV prevalence equal to 26% in Swaziland1 and 23.2%...
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How does Africa fare? Findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study
The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010), a systematic effort to assess the global distribution and causes of major diseases, injuries, and health risk factors, was launched last week in...
View ArticleBlogger’s Swan Song
This will be my last post on Africa Can. Having recently started a new adventure as Chief Economist of the World Bank’s Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, I will be blogging on that region’s...
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