Economic Inequality and HIV in Malawi

Dick Durevall () and Annika Lindskog
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Dick Durevall: Department of Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University, Postal: Box 640, SE 40530 GÖTEBORG

No 425, Working Papers in Economics from University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics

Abstract: To analyze if the spread of HIV is related to economic inequality we estimate multilevel models of the individual probability of HIV infection among young Malawian women. We find a positive association between HIV infection and inequality at both the neighborhood and district levels, but no effect of individual poverty. We also find that the HIV-inequality relationship is related to risky sex, gender violence, and return migration, though no variable completely replaces economic inequality as a predictor of HIV infections. The HIV-inequality relationship does not seem to be related to bad health, gender gaps in education or women’s market work.

Keywords: Africa; AIDS; gender inequality; gender violence; Malawi; poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2009-12-28, Revised 2011-12-06
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