The impact of school subsidies on HIV-related outcomes among adolescent female orphans.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We examine effects of school support as a structural HIV prevention intervention for adolescent female orphans in Zimbabwe after 5 years.

Methods

Three hundred twenty-eight orphan adolescent girls were followed in a clustered randomized controlled trial from 2007 to 2010. The experimental group received school fees, uniforms, and school supplies and were assigned a school-based "helper." In 2011-2012, the control group received delayed partial treatment of school fees only. At the final data point in 2012, survey, HIV, and Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 (HSV-2) biomarker data were collected from approximately 88% of the sample. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were conducted on end point outcomes, controlling for age, religious affiliation, and baseline socioeconomic

SUBMITTER: Hallfors DD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4274377 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature