PEPFAR Funding Associated With An Increase In Employment Among Males in Ten Sub-Saharan African Countries.

ABSTRACT: The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has provided billions of US tax dollars to expand HIV treatment, care, and prevention programs in sub-Saharan Africa. This investment has generated significant health gains, but much less is known about PEPFAR's population-level economic effects. We used a difference-in-differences approach to compare employment trends between ten countries that received a large amount of PEPFAR funding (focus countries) and eleven countries that received little or no funding (control countries). We found that PEPFAR was associated with a 13 percent differential increase in employment among males in focus countries, compared to control countries. However, we observed no change in employment among females. In addition, we found that increasing PEPFAR p

SUBMITTER: Wagner Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4782769 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature