🆕 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...

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:

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=...

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