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How Economists got Africa’s AIDS Epidemic Wrong
Justin Sandefur
May 31, 2023
In the 2000s, cost-effectiveness analysis said it was a bad use of money to send antiretroviral drugs to low-income countries—drugs that ended up saving millions of lives.