TY  - JOUR
AU  - Wilson, Nicholas
TI  - Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Reproductive Behavior in Zambia
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 18226
PY  - 2012
Y2  - July 2012
DO  - 10.3386/w18226
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w18226
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w18226.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Nick Wilson
E-Mail: nwilson@reed.edu
M1  - published as Nicholas Wilson. "Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Reproductive Behavior in Zambia," in Sebastian Edwards, Simon Johnson, and David N. Weil, editors, "African Successes, Volume II: Human Capital" University of Chicago Press (2016)

M3  - presented at "African Development Successes", August 3-5, 2011
AB  - Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) is the single most effective HIV prevention intervention in practice today. Nonetheless, little reliable empirical evidence exists on the behavioral effects of PMTCT. This paper documents the rapid expansion of access to PMTCT in Zambia during the period 2000-2007 and provides some of the first evidence on the change in reproductive behavior associated with PMTCT scale-up. The results of a primarily descriptive analysis suggest that PMTCT may have generated increases in knowledge about PMTCT and MTCT, large reductions in child mortality and pregnancy rates, and smaller changes in breastfeeding rates. However, additional research is required to address the potential endogeneity of PMTCT availability.
ER  -