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Schooling, Income, and HIV Risk in Malawi

NCT01333826 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 3796

Last updated 2025-08-20

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Summary

This study is designed to evaluate a two-year randomized intervention in Malawi that provides cash transfers to current schoolgirls (and young women who have recently dropped out of school) to stay in (and return to) school in order to understand the possible effects of such programs on the sexual behavior of the beneficiaries and their subsequent HIV risk.

Conditions

  • HIV
  • Schooling
  • Conditional Cash Transfers
  • Unconditional Cash Transfers

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Zomba Cash Transfer Program

Cash transfers were provided monthly to a randomly selected sample of school aged girls. Amounts were also varied in both treatment arms.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Berk Ozler, PhD · World Bank

  • Craig T McIntosh, PhD · University of California, San Diego

  • Sarah J Baird, PhD · George Washington University

  • Ephraim Chirwa, PhD · University of Malawi

  • Richard S Garfein, PhD · University of California, San Diego

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
13 Years
Max Age
22 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-09-30
Primary Completion
2012-09-30
Completion
2025-05-31

Countries

  • Malawi

Study Locations

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