HIV Risk and Adolescent Behaviors in Africa
利用45个国家的健康调查数据，研究了1958-1965年出生的女性在青少年时期的行为与后来HIV传播的关系，发现高HIV地区在HIV未被认知前就有更多婚前性行为和女性教育。
We investigate the relationship between HIV, marriage and nonmarital sexual activity, with a focus on adolescent behaviors. We use data from 45 Demographic and Health Surveys to examine how adolescent behavior among women born from 1958 to 1965 are related to the subsequent spread of HIV over time. These women were adolescents during the early 1980s, a time when HIV had started to spread but the cause was still unknown. We find that areas with currently high HIV rates had greater female education and more premarital sexual activity in the cohorts that came of age before HIV was understood.