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Joshua Graff Zivin's Research Featured in Voice of America

AIDS: The Lazarus Effect

12/13/2010
Joe DeCapua, Voice of America News

Researchers call it the Lazarus effect - the dramatic beneficial changes that antiretroviral drugs ARVs - can bring to HIV/AIDS patients and their families. The drugs are changing lives.

Researchers say that not only do AIDS drugs restore the health of those who are very ill, but their families respond as well.

University of California at San Diego Associate Professor Joshua Graff-Zivin, co-author of the study, "The Lazarus effect is I think an effect that's been coined by the medical professionals to describe this sort of pulling individuals from the jaws of death - (an) experience associated with giving ARV treatment to those who have HIV/AIDS.  We borrowed the phrase from the medical types to say that there's an economic Lazarus effect, as well."

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Josh Graff Zivin is Associate Professor of International Relations and Pacific Studies and Affiliated Faculty of Economics. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Research Director for International Environmental and Health Studies at the Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC).

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