The 2001-03 Famine and the Dynamics of HIV in Malawi: A Natural Experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Food security has deteriorated for many people in developing regions facing high and volatile food prices. Without effective and equitable responses, the situation is likely to worsen due to diminishing access to land and water, competition from non-food uses of agricultural products, and the effects of climate change and variability. Understanding how this will affect the burden and distribution of major diseases such as HIV is critical. This study makes use of the near-experimental conditions created by the Malawi famine to shed new light on this issue.

Methods

Multilevel, random intercept models were used to relate the change in HIV prevalence at antenatal surveillance sites over the course of the famine to the proportion of rural households requiring food aid

SUBMITTER: Loevinsohn M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4558031 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature