Developing Nations

HIV/AIDS impact on education intensifies economic downfall

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, March 17th, 2002

The economic decline caused by the HIV/AIDS epidemic in one of Africa's hardest hit sub-Saharan countries, Mozambique, may translate into even more dramatic losses as the disease takes a toll on education, according to a World Bank report by a Purdue University agricultural economist.

Keeping children in school and maintaining educational quality, however, could temper the country's long-term negative economic prospects, Channing Arndt reports in a soon-to-be published World Bank document. This is the first macroeconomic study to focus on the impact of the illness on education and the subsequent long-run economic effects.

Arndt's analysis shows that...

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