Length of secondary schooling and risk of HIV infection in Botswana: evidence from a natural experiment.

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Published in Lancet Glob Health on June 28, 2015

Authors

Jan-Walter De Neve1, Günther Fink2, S V Subramanian3, Sikhulile Moyo4, Jacob Bor5

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
2: Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
3: Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
4: Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana.
5: Department of Global Health and Center for Global Health and Development, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: jbor@bu.edu.

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