The impact of HIV on children's welfare

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Children living in HIV/AIDS affected households bear the heaviest burden of the epidemic. Besides direct vertical transmission, HIV/ AIDS potentially worsens the children's welfare indirectly through its socio-economic impact. This paper uses household survey data including information about individual HIV infection status to analyze the direct and indirect effects of HIV-infected household members on child mortality, undernutrition and educational attainment for Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana and Kenya. The results indicate that the main channel through which HIV effects the child mortality risk is mother to child transmission. Whereas no effect of HIV is found on child mortality and undernutrition, a negative effect for school enrollment is found for Burkina Faso and Cameroon.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IAI Discussion Papers ; No. 157

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Health Behavior ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General ; General Welfare; Well-Being ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Household Analysis: General
• Subject: AIDS ; Kindersterblichkeit ; Unterernährung ; Bildungschancen ; Kinder ; Afrika südlich der Sahara

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Harttgen, Kenneth
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research (IAI)
• (where): Göttingen
• (when): 2007

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/27447
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET