ArticleBMC public health2017
Cash transfers for HIV prevention: what do young women spend it on? Mixed methods findings from HPTN 068.
Article in BMC public health, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. It is linked to trial NCT01233531 (Effects of Cash Transfer for the Prevention of HIV in Young South African Women), which is not on this map. Cited by 16 papers.
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Effects of Cash Transfer for the Prevention of HIV in Young South African Women
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16 citing papers in PubMed.
- The impact of conditional cash transfers for HIV prevention on peer relationships: perspectives from female recipients and non-recipients in HPTN 068.BMC public health · 2022Trial
- Conditional cash transfers and the reduction in partner violence for young women: an investigation of causal pathways using evidence from a randomized experiment in South Africa (HPTN 068).Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2018Trial
- Stepping Stones and Creating Futures Plus: A pilot randomised controlled trial of a co-developed intervention with young South Africans.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Experiences of conditional and unconditional cash transfers intended for improving health outcomes and health service use: a qualitative evidence synthesis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Review
- Potential mechanisms by which cash transfer programmes could improve the mental health and life chances of young people: A conceptual framework and lines of enquiry for research and policy.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2023Article
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- "The sky is the limit; I am going there": experiences of hope among young women receiving a conditional cash transfer in rural South Africa.Culture, health & sexuality · 2022Article
- Mechanisms for the prevention of adolescent intimate partner violence: A realist review of interventions in low- and middle-income countries.PLOS global public health · 2022Article
- The role of gender power relations on women's health outcomes: evidence from a maternal health coverage survey in Simiyu region, Tanzania.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Conceptualization of Empowerment and Pathways Through Which Cash Transfers Work to Empower Young Women to Reduce HIV Risk: A Qualitative Study in Tanzania.AIDS and behavior · 2020Article
- Spillover HIV prevention effects of a cash transfer trial in East Zimbabwe: evidence from a cluster-randomised trial and general-population survey.BMC public health · 2020Article
- The effects of a cash transfer intervention on sexual partnerships and HIV in the HPTN 068 study in South Africa.Culture, health & sexuality · 2020Article
- The Impact of a Conditional Cash Transfer on Multidimensional Deprivation of Young Women: Evidence from South Africa's HTPN 068.Social indicators research · 2020Article
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- Cash Transfers, Young Women's Economic Well-Being, and HIV Risk: Evidence from HPTN 068.AIDS and behavior · 2019Article
- Men's perspectives on the impact of female-directed cash transfers on gender relations: Findings from the HPTN 068 qualitative study.PloS one · 2018Article
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- Erratum issued
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10 authors.
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Abstract
backgroundSocial grants have been found to have an impact on health and wellbeing in multiple settings. Who receives the grant, however, has been the subject of discussion with regards to how the money is spent and who benefits from the grant.
methodsUsing survey data from 1214 young women who were in the intervention arm and completed at least one annual visit in the HPTN 068 trial, and qualitative interview data from a subset of 38 participants, we examined spending of a cash transfer provided to young women conditioned on school attendance.
resultsWe found that spending was largely determined and controlled by young women themselves and that the cash transfer was predominately spent on toiletries, clothing and school supplies. In interview data, young women discussed the significant role of cash transfers for adolescent identity, specifically with regard to independence from family and status within the peer network. There were almost no negative consequences from receiving the cash transfer.
conclusionsWe established that providing adolescents access to cash was not reported to be associated with social harms or negative consequences. Rather, spending of the cash facilitated appropriate adolescent developmental behaviours. The findings are encouraging at a time in which there is global interest in addressing the structural drivers of HIV risk, such as poverty, for young women.
trial registrationClinicaltrials.gov NCT01233531 (1 Nov 2010). First participant enrolled 5 March 2011.
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