How Does the Impact of anHIV/AIDS Information Campaign Vary with EducationalAttainment? Evidence from Rural Uganda

De Walque, Damien

World Bank, Washington, D.C.

关键词: EDUCATION;    HEALTH EDUCATION;    DISEASE PREVENTION;    DISEASES;    AIDS;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-3289
RP-ID  :  WPS3289

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The responsiveness to information isthought to be one channel through which education affectshealth outcomes. The author tests this hypothesis byexamining the effectiveness of an information campaign thataims at preventing the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Uganda. Previousstudies in the epidemiological literature have generallyconcluded that, in Africa, there was either a positiveassociation or no association between HIV infection andschooling levels. Using individual level data from a cohortstudy following the general population of a cluster ofvillages in rural Uganda over 12 years, the author showsthat, after more than a decade of prevention campaigns aboutthe dangers of the epidemic, there has been a substantialevolution in the HIV/education gradient. Early in theepidemic, in 1990, there was no robust relation betweenHIV/AIDS and education. In 2000, among young individuals, inparticular among females, education lowers the risk of beingHIV positive. Results on HIV incidence in a durationframework confirm that finding by establishing that, foryoung individuals, education reduces the probability ofseroconversion. These findings reveal that educatedindividuals have been more responsive to the HIV/AIDSinformation campaigns. The analysis of sexual behaviorreinforces that conclusion: condom use is associatedpositively with schooling levels.