ArticleAIDS and behavior2019
Cash Transfers, Young Women's Economic Well-Being, and HIV Risk: Evidence from HPTN 068.
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- Gender-responsive and -transformative interventions in HIV, TB and malaria programmes: a review of evidence.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- Do cash transfers alleviate common mental disorders in low- and middle-income countries? A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2023Pooled it
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of cash transfers on subjective well-being and mental health in low- and middle-income countries.Nature human behaviour · 2022Pooled it
- The impact of cash transfers on mental health in children and young people in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ global health · 2021Pooled it
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- Effect of a cash transfer intervention on memory decline and dementia probability in older adults in rural South Africa.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Trial
- Effects of Adolescent-Focused Integrated Social Protection on Depression: A Pragmatic Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial of Tanzania's Cash Plus Intervention.American journal of epidemiology · 2022Trial
- Women of Worth: the impact of a cash plus intervention to enhance attendance and reduce sexual health risks for young women in Cape Town, South Africa.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2022Trial
- The worse the better? Quantile treatment effects of a conditional cash transfer programme on mental health.Health policy and planning · 2020Trial
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- Gender-transformative HIV and SRHR programme approaches for adolescents and young people: a realist review to inform policy and programmes.BMJ global health · 2024Review
- Assessing the durability of a cash transfer on physical intimate partner violence and sexual relationships among adolescent girls and young women in rural South Africa.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2024Article
- Financing for equity for women's, children's and adolescents' health in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Economic interventions for the prevention of mental health problems: The role of cash transfers.The American journal of orthopsychiatry · 2024Article
- Intimate partner violence is associated with cytomegalovirus among young women in rural South Africa: An HPTN 068 analysis.Global public health · 2023Article
- "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
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Abstract
Despite the large interest in economic interventions to reduce HIV risk, little research has been done to show whether there are economic gains of these interventions for younger women and what intermediary role economic resources play in changing participants' sexual behavior. This paper contributes to this gap by examining the impacts of a conditional cash transfer (CCT) for young women in South Africa on young women's economic resources and the extent to which they play a role in young women's health and behavior. We used data from HIV Prevention Trials Network 068 study, which provided transfers to young women (in addition to their parents) conditional on the young woman attending at least 80% of school days in the previous month. We found that the CCT increased young women's economic wellbeing in terms of having savings, spending money, being unindebted, and food secure. We also investigated heterogeneous effects of the program by household economic status at baseline because the program was not specifically poverty targeted and found that the results were driven by young women from the poorest families. From these results, we examined heterogeneity by baseline poverty for other outcomes related to HIV risk including sexual behavior and psychosocial well-being. We found psychosocial well-being benefits in young women from the poorest families and that economic wellbeing gains explained much these impacts.
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