HIV treatment – Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

A first look at how HIV-positive, aging adults living in rural South Africa are doing in treatment cascade

July 11, 2019

Aging, HIV-positive adults in South Africa are a growing segment of the population. A study by HAALSI researchers, including project director and lead author, Julia Rohr, PhD, takes a first look at how this understudied population is progressing along…

HAALSI website focuses on health of aging population of South African community

October 13, 2016

In Sub-Saharan Africa, the overall gains in life expectancy due to socioeconomic and health improvements—as well as the scale-up of antiretroviral treatment (ART)—have meant that adults are now experiencing the onset of cardiovascular and metabolic…

Applying regression discontinuity in epidemiology; a study on when to start HIV treatment

February 10, 2015

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Till Bärnighausen, MD, has co-authored an article published in Epidemiology in response to a commentary on their previous study that explores applying regression discontinuity designs in epidemiology published in…

Communication and HIV Treatment

July 17, 2013

Jeffrey Bingenheimer, former Pop Center RWJF Health & Society scholar, studies the role of communication in AIDS control.