Promoting healthy behaviour: The importance of economic analysis in policy formulation for AIDS prevention

Considerable attention has been paid in the literature to modification of high-risk behaviours as a means to control the spread of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. The success of such policies will depend crucially on the underlying causal mechanisms of these high-risk behaviours. To date the application of economics to the problem of AIDS has tended to focus on estimating the economic burden of the condition and the resource consequences of …