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Evaluation of the Effects of a Structural Economic and Food Security Intervention on HIV Vulnerability in Rural Malawi

NCT02332265 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 1901

Last updated 2015-01-06

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate a multilevel economic and food security program (Support to Able-Bodied Vulnerable groups to Achieve Food Security; SAFE) in rural central Malawi as implemented and assigned by CARE-Malawi on HIV vulnerability and other health outcomes.

Hypothesis: HIV vulnerability can be reduced through a coordinated set of locally tailored individual and structural interventions that reduces poverty, reduces food insecurity, strengthens community bonds, and addresses gender inequality.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Support to Able-Bodied Vulnerable groups to Achieve Food Security (SAFE)

The SAFE program was developed \& implemented from Jan. 2008-Dec. 2010 by CARE-Malawi, a country office of CARE International, a large NGO. SAFE participants were selected by CARE-Malawi. SAFE was designed to address intertwined structural issues contributing to HIV susceptibility: food insecurity, poverty, gender inequity and ineffective governance. SAFE was implemented in 3 geographic subdivisions (Njombwa, Kaomba, \& Mwase) of Kasungu District, located in west-central Malawi. It was funded primarily by the European Commission \& partially by the Austrian Development Cooperation. SAFE had 4 main components: 1) improving farming practices \& sustainable agriculture through Farmer Field Schools, 2) increasing access to savings and investment through Village Savings \& Loans Groups, 3) building capacity of local governance structures \& 4) integrating HIV education \& gender empowerment into programs through training \& education. Details: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4082534/.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • CARE Malawi

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of Pennsylvania

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Malawi

    collaborator OTHER

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Lance Weinhardt, PhD · University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Zilber School of Public Health

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-02-28
Primary Completion
2012-04-30
Completion
2012-04-30

Countries

  • Malawi

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