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CompletedNCT00922038

Rewarding Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Prevention and Control in Tanzania

Encouraging Safe Sexual Practices Among Youth Using Cash Rewards: A Randomized Trial in the Kilombero/Ulanga Districts, Tanzania

Status
Completed
Phase
N/A
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
2,411 (actual)
Sponsor
University of California, Berkeley · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
16 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

This project evaluates the effect of a combined economic and psycho-social intervention to reduce risky sexual activity and its consequences. The main hypothesis to be tested is that risky sexual activity and resulting sexually transmitted infections (STIs) can be reduced through an intervention of counseling, regular STI testing, and positive reinforcement using cash rewards. The intervention is being implemented in a population of young people in rural Tanzania where more conventional behavioral change interventions have had limited effect in battling a generalized HIV epidemic.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
BEHAVIORALCash rewardEnrollees testing negative for treatable sexually transmitted infections will receive cash rewards.

Timeline

Start date
2009-02-01
First posted
2009-06-17
Last updated
2009-06-17

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00922038. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.