• Jamiu Adetola Odugbesan and Husam Rjoub.
• Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Cyprus International University, North Cyprus.
• Afr Health Sci. 2020 Jun 1; 20 (2): 568-578.

BackgroundThe sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) present the highest prevalence of HIV/AIDS worldwide; resulting to a significant development challenges at country, region and global level. The previous studies explain at least in part, the impact of the epidemic, however the impact of HIV/AIDS in long-term economic behavior were not yet clear. There is clearly few or absence of studies on the impact of the impact of the epidemic on sustainable development.ObjectiveThis study focused on macroeconomic analysis of the HIV/AIDS impact on sustainable development in SSA.MethodsThe study utilized a panel dataset covering 23 countries from 1993 until 2016, and employed Panel ARDL/PMG.ResultOur findings reveals a stable long-run relationship between sustainable development and HIV/AIDS prevalence. The error correction coefficient was statistically significant and conclude that HIV/AIDS prevalence has long-run impact on sustainable development.ConclusionThe main implication of our study is that, achieving a sustainable development in the presence of high prevalence of HIV/AIDS in SSA is very challenging and as such, the responsiveness of HIV/AIDS to sustainable development should be maintained at minimum which would require more efforts on HIV/AIDS control programs and increase health expenditure.© 2020 Odugbesan JA et al.

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