CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Martins Frade, Rafael Aparecido |
|---|---|
| Title | HIV Prevention Policy: An Econometric Evaluation |
| Summary | HIV remains a social and economic challenge in many countries, despite numerous efforts to control it. A promising policy developed in the past 10 years, the Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PREP) have been implemented in many countries and show promising results. Most studies about PREP are either qualitative research that tries to analyse the experience of people taking it or clinical RCTs that follow small groups of people for several years. To the best of my knowledge, the present research is the first that tries to evaluate the effect of this policy as an observation study at a city or national level. The study uses data from Brazil and exploits the fact that the great majority of the people following this protocol in Brazil belong to HIV vulnerable groups. I find that, if a city has 100 new HIV cases in the vulnerable group in a given year, giving the PREP medication to 1000 people belonging to this group is likely to decrease the HIV cases in the following year by 12 to 20 percent. |
| Supervisor | Danis, Andras |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/martins_rafael.pdf |
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