Author(s)

Yitao Zhang, Aleksandar Ivanov

Corresponding Author

Yitao Zhang

ABSTRACT

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a very dangerous infectious disease caused by infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a virus that attacks the body's immune system and causes the body to lose its immune function. As a result, people with AIDS are susceptible to a variety of diseases, and patients often die from other infections with other diseases. AIDS is of great concern worldwide as an infectious disease with no effective cure. There are many researchers around the world who are studying how to prevent and treat AIDS. Currently, pre-infection prophylaxis has been used to reduce the rate of HIV infection. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is one of the most effective treatments to extend the life expectancy and quality of life of people with HIV, and ART is also effective in reducing the risk of HIV transmission. However, because of the high cost of ART drugs, many families and individuals cannot afford to pay for them, so national medical subsidies are important for people with HIV. It is well known that national gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, government health spending, and other factors have a significant impact on whether or not a country can adequately subsidize medical care for people/families living with HIV. Not only in terms of money, but education also has a significant impact on AIDS. Education educates people about HIV prevention and strengthens the ability of people to cope with HIV infection. At the same time, national GDP per capita also influences government spending on education and government spending on public health, and these three are closely related. Therefore, in this paper, we compare national GDP per capita, health expenditure per capita, and government expenditure on education with the estimated number of HIV infections in each country, integrate the data, and build regression models to investigate how these factors affect the transmission of HIV. These results are useful in helping countries to control the spread of HIV through the rational allocation of resources, and perhaps we can look forward to eradicating AIDS by means of prevention and making AIDS a thing of the past.

KEYWORDS

AIDS/HIV, Education, Health Expenditure, GDP, Regression Model