Africa, AIDS, antenatal, breastfeeding, children, Economic analysis methods, Evaluation in Health, Evaluation Results, fertility, hiv prevention, household investment, mother-to-child hiv transmission, pregnancy, Reproduction health, sub-saharan africa, technology, Zambia, East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, North America, South Asia
Fertility Responses to Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV

Prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) interventions reduce the cumulative probability of transmission from a HIV positive woman to her child by as much as 40 percentage points. This paper is the first economic analysis of the behavioral effects of PMTCT. The author examine fertility responses to the scale-up of PMTCT in Zambia, a country where approximately 15 percent of adults age 15-49 are HIV positive. The author's results suggest that the local introduction of PMTCT reduced pregnancy rates by up to 20 percent, that the fertility response was greater among women who were more likely to be HIV positive, and that PMTCT substantially increased breastfeeding rates.

Link: http://web.williams.edu/Economics/wp/WilsonPMTCT.pdf
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