MedTrace Logo

Cash Transfer to Adolescent Girls and Young Women to Reduce Sexual Risk Behavior - an Impact Evaluation

NCT03597243 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 3120

Last updated 2018-07-26

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Vulnerability to HIV infection in Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) is mainly influenced by structural factors which mediate through sexual risk behavior. The Sauti program as implementing partner of the DREAMS initiative will provide unconditional cash transfer on quarterly basis to vulnerable AGYW in selected districts of Tanzania. The CARE study will evaluate the impact of this activity through a cluster randomised controlled trial that involves quantitative and qualitative research techniques. The study will inform policy makers on the impact of Cash transfer programs in AGYW as a tool to reduce vulnerability to HIV infection in Adolescent Girls and Young women.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Cash Transfer

Girls enrolled receive a quarterly direct cash transfer of a total of 70,000 Tshs (30 USD) quarterly through mobile phone based cash transfer over a period of two years, for which they will receive mobile phones and SIM cards form the program.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute for Medical Research, Tanzania

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Mwita Wambura, PhD · NIMR Mwanza

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
15 Years
Max Age
23 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-10-30
Primary Completion
2019-07-15
Completion
2019-12-15

Countries

  • Tanzania

Study Locations

More Related Trials

Entities

Diseases

Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

View NCT03597243 on ClinicalTrials.gov