Wally Toh, Aurélia Lépine, Khady Gueye, El Hadj Mbaye, Mame Mor, Cheikh Tidiane Ndour, Owen O'Donell. 2025. Effect of pre-exposure prophylaxis on risky sexual behaviour of female sex workers in Dakar, Senegal: A randomised controlled trial. Plos Medicine. (forthcoming)
Wally Toh , Carole Treibich, Sandie Szawlowski, Henry Cust, Khady Gueye, Cheikh Tidiane Ndour, Aurélia Lépine. 2025. How COVID-19 may lead to an increase in STI and HIV? Evidence from a cohort study among female sex workers in Senegal. Health Policy and Planning (forthcoming)
Rebecca Njuguna, Henry Cust, Aurélia Lépine. 2025. Estimating risky sex premium for women engaging in commercial and transactional sex in Cameroon. Health Economics (forthcoming)
Allel, Kasim, Henry Cust, Iliassou Mfochive, Sandie Szawlowski, Emile Nitcheu, Eric Defo Tamgno, Stephanie Moyoum, Julienne Noo, Serge BIllong, Ubald Tamoufe, Aurélia Lépine. 2025 Cost-effectiveness of health insurance among women engaged in transactional sex and impacts on HIV transmission in Cameroon: a mathematical model. BMJ Global Health 10, no. 2.
Lépine, Aurélia, Sandie Szawlowski, Emile Nitcheu, Henry Cust, Eric Defo Tamgno, Julienne Noo, Fanny Procureur, Illiasou Mfochive, Serge Billong, and Ubald Tamoufe. The effect of protecting women against economic shocks to fight HIV in Cameroon, Africa: The POWER randomised controlled trial. PLoS Medicine 21, no. 10 (2024): e1004355.
Lépine, Aurélia, Charlie Henderson, Emile Nitcheu, Fanny Procureur, Henry Cust, Létitia Toukam, Chimene Chimsgueya et al. Public prostitutes and private prostitutes’: A study of women's perceptions of transactional sex in Cameroon. 2024. Social Science & Medicine 363 (2024): 117492.
Szawlowski, Sandie, Carole Treibich, Mylene Lagarde, El Hadj Mbaye, Khady Gueye, Cheikh Tidiane Ndour, and Aurélia Lépine. Reforming the registration policy of female sex workers in Senegal? Evidence from a discrete choice experiment. Plos one, no. 8 (2023): e0289882.
Lépine, Aurélia, Fanny Procureur, Sandie Szawlowski, Carole Treibich, El Hadj Mbaye, Khady Gueye, and Cheikh Tidiane Ndour. 2024. Optimising the public health benefits of sex work regulation in Senegal: Results from qualitative interviews with policy stakeholders. Plos one, no. 8: e0306803.
Henry Cust, Aurélia Lépine, Carole Treibich, Timothy Powell-Jackson, Rosalba Radice, Cheikh Tidiane Ndour. 2024. Trading HIV for sheep: Risky sexual behavior and the response of female sex workers to Tabaski in Senegal. Health Economics, 33(1), 153-193.
Haire, S., Aurélia Lépine, Effron, D. A., & Treibich, C. 2023. Can Self-affirmation Encourage HIV-Prevention? Evidence from Female Sex Workers in Senegal. AIDS and Behavior. doi:10.1007/s10461-023-04039-7
Lépine, Aurélia, Henry Cust, and Carole Treibich. 2023.What Drives HIV in Africa? Addressing Economic Gender Inequalities to Close the HIV Gender Gap." In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance.
Treibich, C., Bell, E.., & Blanc, E., Aurélia Lépine. 2022. From a drought to HIV: An analysis of the effect of droughts on transactional sex and sexually transmitted infections in Malawi. SSM - Population Health, 19, 101221. doi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101221
Henry Cust, Harriet Jones, Tim Powell-Jackson, Aurélia Lépine., & Radice, R. 2021. "Economic shocks and risky sexual behaviours in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of the literature". Journal of Development Effectiveness, 13 (2), 166-203. doi:10.1080/19439342.2021.1928734
Aurélia Lépine and Carole Treibich. 2020. “Risk preferences and HIV/AIDS: evidence from Senegalese sex workers”, Social Science & Medicine. 256(113020).
Seiro Ito, Aurélia Lépine, and Carole Treibich. 2018. “The impact of becoming a registered female sex worker in Senegal on health and wellbeing”, Health Economics, 27(11), 1627-1652.
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Aurélia Lépine, Sudha Chandrashekar, and Anna Vassall. 2016. “Determinants of HIV prevention costs: Evidence from the Avahan initiative in India”, Health Economics, 25(s1), 67–82.
Aurélia Lépine, Sudha Chandrashekar, Alexis Le Nestour, Elodie Blanc, and Anna Vassall. 2015. “Estimating unbiased economies of scale of HIV prevention projects: a case study of Avahan”, Social Science & Medicine, 131, 164–172.
Kate Mitchell, Aurélia Lépine, Fern Terris-Prestholt, Kwasi Torpey, Hadiza Khamofu, Morenike Ukpong, Jonah Musa, Samuel Udemezue, Atiene Sagay, Emmanuiel Alhassan, John Idoko, and Peter Vickerman. 2015. “Cost-effectiveness of new ARV prevention strategies among sero-discordant couples in Nigeria”, AIDS, 29(15), 2035.
Mylène Lagarde, Aurélia Lépine, and Collins Chansa. 2022 "The long-term effects of free care on birth outcomes: Evidence from a national policy reform in Zambia." SSM-population health. 17 (2022): 101051.
Aurélia Lépine, Maria Restuccio, Eric Strobl 2021. "Can we mitigate the effect of natural disasters on child health? Evidence from the Indian Ocean tsunami in Indonesia". Health Economics. 30(2), 432-452.
Aurélia Lépine, Mylène Lagarde, and Alexis Le Nestour. 2017. “How effective and fair is user fee removal? Evidence from Zambia using a pooled synthetic control”, Health Economics, 27(3), 493-508.
Ben d'Exelle, Aurélia Lépine, Richard Bakyono, Ludovic Tapsoba. 2023. "Fertility and Polygyny: Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso". Journal of Development Economics. Forthcoming.
David Fielding and Aurélia Lépine. 2016. “How much does women’s empowerment influence their wellbeing? Evidence from Africa”, Journal of Development Studies, 53(6), 826–840.
Aurélia Lépine and Eric Strobl. 2013. “The effect of women’s bargaining power on child nutrition in rural Senegal”, World Development, 45(2), 17–30.
Aurélia Lépine, Ariane Ndjore, Carole Treibich, Wally Toh, Megan Pasey, Laurent Foubert, Selina Blinder. 2024. "Estimating the prevalence of child labour in the cocoa industry via indirect elicitation methods: A mixed-methods study." Journal of Population Economics. 37(4), p.77.
Christine Valente, Wen Qiang Toh, Inuwa Jalingo, Aurélia Lépine, Áureo de Paula, and Grant Miller. "Are self-reported fertility preferences biased? Evidence from indirect elicitation methods." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121, no. 34 (2024): e2407629121.
Aurélia Lépine, Carole Treibich and Ben d'Exelle. 2020. “Nothing but the truth: Consistency and efficiency of the list experiment method for the measurement of sensitive health behaviours”, Social Science & Medicine. 266(113326).
Aurélia Lépine, Carole Treibich, Khady Gueye, Cheikh Tidiane Ndour, Peter Vickerman. 2020. “Estimating over-reporting in condom use among sex workers: Evidence from the list randomisation and the polling box methods”. Health Policy & Planning, 35(4), 408-415.
Carole Treibich and Aurélia Lépine. 2018. “Estimating misreporting in sensitive health behaviours: Evidence from condom use of female sex workers in Senegal”, Health Economics, 28(1), 144-160.
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