This paper evaluates an experiment in which individuals in rural Malawi were randomly
assigned monetary incentives to learn their HIV results after being tested. Distance to the …

Abstract The Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH) is one of very few
long-standing, publicly available longitudinal cohort studies in a sub-Saharan African (SSA) …

Sociologists widely acknowledge that uncertainty matters for decision making, but they
rarely measure it directly. In this article, we demonstrate the importance of theorizing about …

Disclosure of HIV status after HIV voluntary counseling and testing has important
implications for the spread of the HIV epidemic and the health of individuals who are HIV …

In the absence of HIV testing, how do rural Malawians assess their HIV status? In this paper,
we use a unique dataset that includes respondents' HIV status as well as their subjective …

Background International guidance recommends the scale up of routinely recommended,
offered, and delivered health care provider-initiated HIV testing and counseling (PITC) to …

A large and increasing proportion of HIV transmissions in sub-Saharan Africa occur within
marriage. Condom use within marriage could, therefore, be an important prevention …

Surprisingly little is known about how or if knowledge of one's HIV status influences the
desire to have children in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper takes advantage of a unique …

Although HIV‐prevalence and fertility rates in sub‐Saharan Africa are among the highest in
the world, little is known about how HIV infection affects the fertility preferences of men and …

As the HIV epidemic evolves, researchers are devoting increased attention to the infection's
effect on various life‐course activities, including marriage and reproduction. The impact of …