Author:
Damien de Walque

Abstract:
Assessing the socioeconomic benefits attached to the reduction of premature adult mortality due to access to antiretroviral treatment is one of the central questions of the research agenda we have developed in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mozambique, Rwanda, India, Kenya, and South Africa. The other objectives of the study include a measure of the impact of the availability of treatment on preventive behaviors adopted by HIV-positive and HIV-negative individuals, an assessment of the determinants of good adherence to treatment, from both the patient’s and the health facility’s perspective and an analysis of the impact that the scaling-up of antiretroviral treatment has on the performance of the health sector. This work will require managing and analyzing a large set of longitudinal surveys in seven countries and producing the many country-specific and cross-country descriptive and analytical reports based on this data.

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