Research Catalog

Title

The impact of the AIDS pandemic on health services in Africa [electronic resource] : evidence from demographic and health surveys / Anne Case, Christina Paxson.

Author

Case, Anne, 1958-

Publication

[Princeton, N.J. : Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, 2009].

Supplementary Content

http://www.princeton.edu/~accase/downloads/Case%20Paxson%20The%20impact%20of%20the%20AIDS%20pandemic%20March%206.pdf

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Additional Authors

Paxson, Christina H.

Summary

We document the impact of the AIDS crisis on non-AIDS related health services in fourteen sub-Saharan African countries. Using multiple waves of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for each country, we examine antenatal care, birth deliveries, and rates of immunization for children born between 1988 and 2005. We find deterioration in nearly all of these dimensions of health care over this period. The most recent DHS survey for each country collected data on HIV prevalence, which allows us to examine the association between HIV burden and health care. We find that erosion of health services is highly correlated with increases in AIDS prevalence. Regions of countries that have light AIDS burdens have witnessed small or no declines in health care, using the measures noted above, while those regions currently shouldering the heaviest burdens have seen the largest erosion in treatment for pregnant women and children. Using semi-parametric techniques, we can date the beginning of the divergence in health services between high and low HIV regions to the mid-1990s.

Uniform Title

Working papers (Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Research Program in Development Studies) ; no. 264.

Subject

• AIDS (Disease) > Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Public health > Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Prenatal care > Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Children > Health and hygiene > Africa, Sub-Saharan

Genre/Form

Facsimiles.

Note

• Title from title screen (viewed on Aug. 24, 2012).
• "March 2009."
• Series title from Woodrow School of Public and International Affairs Research Program in Development Studies working papers page.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 23).

File Type (note)

• Text (PDF)

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available in an electronic version.

Reproduction (note)

• Printout.

System Details (note)

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.

OCLC

• on1340384218
• SCSB-14659130

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library