A longitudinal macro analysis of social determinants of health and their impacts on HIV prevalence and nutritional deficiencies in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Sub-Saharan Africa faces a dual public health crisis of HIV and nutritional deficiencies driven by profound socio-economic disparities. Despite significant micro-study research, macro-level, longitudinal patterns and causal dynamics remain underexplored. This study employs Panel Auto-regressive distributed lags, Panel Granger causality, and Vector auto-correction model to examine the influence of social determinants on HIV prevalence and nutritional deficiencies across Sub-Saharan Africa.