| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w12418 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 12418 |
| When Knowledge is not Enough: HIV\/AIDS Information and Risky Behavior in Botswana | |
| James A. Levinsohn; Taryn Dinkelman; Rolang Majelantle | |
| 发表日期 | 2006-08-07 |
| 出版年 | 2006 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic is still fueled by ignorance in many parts of the world. Filling in knowledge gaps, particularly between men and women, is considered key to preventing future infections and to reducing female vulnerabilities to the disease. However, such knowledge is arguably only a necessary condition for targeting these objectives. In this paper, we describe the extent to which HIV/AIDS knowledge is correlated with less risky sexual behavior. We ask: even when there are no substantial knowledge gaps between men and women, do we still observe sex-specific differentials in sexual behavior that would increase vulnerability to infection? We use data from two recent household surveys in Botswana to address this question. We show that even when men and women have very similar types of knowledge, they have different probabilities of reporting safe sex. Our findings are consistent with the existence of non-informational barriers to behavioral change, some of which appear to be sex-specific. The descriptive exercise in this paper suggests that it may be overly optimistic to hope for reductions in risky behavior through the channel of HIV-information provision alone. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Development and Growth ; Development |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w12418 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/570075 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | James A. Levinsohn,Taryn Dinkelman,Rolang Majelantle. When Knowledge is not Enough: HIV\/AIDS Information and Risky Behavior in Botswana. 2006. |
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