NCT01501864

School Support as Structural HIV Prevention for Adolescent Orphans in Kenya

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 835 (actual)
• Sponsor: Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to test whether school support can keep adolescent Kenyan orphans in school, reduce sexual risk behaviors, and prevent HIV /HSV-2 infection.

Detailed description

This study examines the impact of school support as a structural intervention, tested among adolescent orphans in Siaya District, Nyanza Province, Kenya. Aims for the proposed study are: 1) To experimentally test whether providing comprehensive school support to Kenyan orphaned boys and girls will reduce school dropout, reduce sexual risk behaviors, and prevent HIV/HSV-2 infection; 2) To conduct a process evaluation of the implementation of the program; and 3) To conduct comparative cost effectiveness analyses, specifying the intervention's cost and return on investment as evidenced by cost per unit improvement in the primary outcomes of school enrollment, delay of sexual debut and prevention of risk behaviors and HIV/HSV-2 infection, as well as by gains in health-related quality of life.

Conditions

• HIV

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	School Support Intervention	Comprehensive school support is provided that includes payment of school fees, school uniform, and a nurse researcher who monitors attendance and addresses problems that may lead to school absence and dropout.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-07-01
• Primary completion: 2016-09-01
• Completion: 2017-03-31
• First posted: 2011-12-30
• Last updated: 2017-09-26

Locations

2 sites across 2 countries: United States, Kenya