Incentivising safe sex: a randomised trial of conditional cash transfers for HIV and sexually transmitted infection prevention in rural Tanzania.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The authors evaluated the use of conditional cash transfers as an HIV and sexually transmitted infection prevention strategy to incentivise safe sex.

Design

An unblinded, individually randomised and controlled trial.

Setting

10 villages within the Kilombero/Ulanga districts of the Ifakara Health and Demographic Surveillance System in rural south-west Tanzania.

Participants

The authors enrolled 2399 participants, aged 18-30 years, including adult spouses.

Interventions

Participants were randomly assigned to either a control arm (n=1124) or one of two intervention arms: low-value conditional cash transfer (eligible for $10 per testing round, n=660) and high-value conditional cash transfer (eligible for $20 per testing round, n=615). The authors t

SUBMITTER: de Walque D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3330254 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature