Mobile phones and HIV testing: Multi-country evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
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Keywords
Technological change; mobile technology; public health; HIV; reproductive health;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
- I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2021-03-15 (Development)
- NEP-HEA-2021-03-15 (Health Economics)
- NEP-ISF-2021-03-15 (Islamic Finance)
- NEP-PAY-2021-03-15 (Payment Systems and Financial Technology)
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