The gradient in sub-Saharan Africa: socioeconomic status and HIV/AIDS

Fortson, J.G.

Demography 45(2): 303-322

2008


ISSN/ISBN: 0070-3370
PMID: 18613483
DOI: 10.1353/dem.0.0006
Document Number: 201367
Using data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for Burkina Faso (2003), Cameroon (2004), Ghana (2003), Kenya (2003), and Tanzania (2003), I investigate the cross-sectional relationship between HIV status and socioeconomic status. I find evidence of a robust positive education gradient in HIV infection, showing that, up to very high levels of education, better-educated respondents are more likely to be HIV-positive.

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