Emily Oster: What do we really know about the spread of AIDS?
By: ecatny
Posted: Oct 22 07
Witnessed: 738 times
Regions: Sao Tomé-et-Principe
Issues: Anthropologie légale, Conflit armé, Discrimination, Enfants soldats, VIH/SIDA
Tags: Africa, Economics, epidemic, HIV, talk
About this Talk
Emily Oster, a University of Chicago economist, looks at the stats on AIDS in Africa -- and comes up with a stunning conclusion: Everything we know about AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa is wrong. We look for root causes such as poverty and poor health care -- but we also need to factor in, say, the price of coffee, and the routes of long-haul truckers. In short, there is a lot we don't know; and our assumptions about what we do know may keep us from finding the best way to stop the disease.
This talk comes from TED
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