NCT01233531

Effects of Cash Transfer for the Prevention of HIV in Young South African Women

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 2,537 (actual)
• Sponsor: HIV Prevention Trials Network · Network
• Sex: Female
• Age: 13 Years – 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Cash transfers to young women for staying in school and its effect on acquiring HIV

Detailed description

The overall purpose of this study is to determine whether providing cash transfers to young women and their household, conditional on school attendance, reduces young women's risk of acquiring Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The overall goal of the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) intervention is to reduce structural barriers to education with the goal of increasing school attendance of young women, thereby decreasing their HIV risk.

Conditions

• HIV

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	monthly cash transfer payments for attending school	In the intervention, young women and their households will be randomized in 1:1 ratio to receive monthly cash transfer payments, conditional on the young woman attending school, or to the control arm. Young women will be recruited at the beginning of grades 8 through 11 in the first year of the study.
BEHAVIORAL	B--No cash transfers	No monthly cash transfers

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-03-01
• Primary completion: 2015-03-01
• Completion: 2015-03-01
• First posted: 2010-11-03
• Last updated: 2025-03-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: South Africa