South Africa - CCT young women survey and HOPE Scale survey pilots
Reference ID | AHPU.ZA011.CCT.2012 |
Year | 2011 - 2012 |
Country | South Africa |
Producer(s) | |
Metadata | Documentation in PDF |
Study website |
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May 03, 2018
Last modified
May 22, 2018
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Overview
Identification
AHPU.ZA011.CCT.2012 |
Overview
Young women in South Africa face an extremely high risk of HIV infection. More than 11 percent of young women ages 14 to 24 are living with HIV, compared to less than three percent of men in the same age group.The effect of cash transfers on HIV prevention for young women may depend on the local context. Cash transfers to keep girls in school may have a greater impact in settings where secondary school enrollment is low for young women
The effect of cash transfers to reduce HIV risk behavior through mechanisms other than school attendance will likely be dependent on factors driving HIV risk and how likely it is that those behaviors can be altered by cash, which will largely be dependent on the local context.
HPTN 068 was a Phase III research study determine whether providing cash transfers to young women and their household, conditional on school attendance, reduced young women’s risk of acquiring HIV.
The overall goal of the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) intervention was to reduce structural barriers to education with the goal of increasing school attendance of young women, hereby decreasing their HIV risk.
Coverage
A total of 2,533 young women were enrolled between March 2011 and December 2012. Participants enrolled in the study were aged 13-20 years, in high school, not married or pregnant, and resided in the Medical Research Council (MRC) / Wits University Agincourt Health and Socio-Demographic Surveillance System (AHDSS) study site.This region is a rural area of Mpumalanga Province in South Africa that is characterized by high HIV prevalence, poverty, and migration for work.
Villages included
· Agincourt
· Khaya Lami
· Xanthia
· Croquet Lawn
· Ireagh A