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ArticleThe American economic review2008

The Demand for, and Impact of, Learning HIV Status.

Rebecca L Thornton

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Article in The American economic review, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 143 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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143 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

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Rebecca L ThorntonUniversity of Michigan, 426 Thompson St., Ann Arbor, MI, 48106 ( rebeccal@umich.edu ).

Funding

Gender, Conversationsal Networks and Dealing with STD'sR01HD041713 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI WATKINS, SUSAN C · 2001 to 2005
$2.1M
SOCIAL INTERACTIONS AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTHR01HD037276 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI WATKINS, SUSAN C · 1999 to 2001
$593k
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD037276NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD041713
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper evaluates an experiment in which individuals in rural Malawi were randomly assigned monetary incentives to learn their HIV results after being tested. Distance to the HIV results centers was also randomly assigned. Without any incentive, 34 percent of the participants learned their HIV results. However, even the smallest incentive doubled that share. Using the randomly assigned incentives and distance from results centers as instruments for the knowledge of HIV status, sexually active HIV-positive individuals who learned their results are three times more likely to purchase condoms two months later than sexually active HIV-positive individuals who did not learn their results; however, HIV-positive individuals who learned their results purchase only two additional condoms than those who did not. There is no significant effect of learning HIV-negative status on the purchase of condoms.

Indexed as

Health Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeSexual BehaviorAfrica, SouthernAIDS SerodiagnosisCondomsFemaleHealth Services AccessibilityHIV InfectionsHumansMalawiMaleMotivation

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PMID21687831
PMCPMC3115776

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