Abstract
The democratic dividend theory states that democraciesshould provide socio-economic benefits to their citizens.Scholars suggest that the legitimacy of African democraciesis partly dependent on this dividend. Following this theory,democracies should handle the HIV/AIDS epidemic betterthan non-democracies because of their higher level ofaccountability. A cross-national analysis is conducted toinvestigate how a country’s level of democracy is associatedwith respondents’ knowledge of HIV/AIDS and the provisionof HIV-testing places. The relationships between bothdemocracy and HIV-knowledge, and the provision of HIVtestingplaces are non-significant. This can have implicationsfor how citizens view their regimes’ legitimacy.
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