title: Plague and war: political breakdown and the spread of HIV.
abstract: This exploratory data analysis finds a negative relationship between some types of war and HIV prevalence (i.e. as the former increases in intensity, the latter decreases). The study uses a longer time-frame and broader range of countries than similar studies, with explicit differentiation between sub-Saharan African and other developing countries. The study uses a variety of methods for analyzing time-series-cross-section data. These methods serve as both a robustness check for the results as well as a real-world demonstration of common suggestions for TSCS data.
authors.affiliation: a School of International Service , American University , Washington , DC , USA .
authors.forename: Nathan A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Paxton
mesh_terms: D003906:Developing Countries; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D010930:Plague; D015995:Prevalence; D013997:Time Factors; D014857:Warfare
keywords: HIV; civil war; intrastate conflict; time-series cross-section methods