Conditional cash transfer programs are often used to encourage poor families to take young children for regular health check-ups and enroll them in school decision making. Can cash transfers successfully...
Incentive-based policies have been shown to be powerful in many areas of behavior, but have rarely been tested in the sexual domain. The Rewarding Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention and Control...
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Incentivizing safe sex : a randomized trial of conditional cash transfers for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and sexually...
Using behavior change to tackle human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the developing world is not easy. For years, the global community has zeroed in on behavior...
Behavior change communication (BCC) interventions, while still a necessary component of HIV prevention, have not on their own been shown to be sufficient to stem the tide of the epidemic. The shortcomings...
HIV-prevention strategies have yielded only limited success so far in slowing down the AIDS epidemic. This paper examines novel intervention strategies that use incentives to discourage risky sexual behaviors...
The authors evaluated the use of conditional cash transfers as an HIV and sexually transmitted infection prevention strategy to incentivize safe sex. An unblinded, individually randomised and controlled...
Malaria is still a devastating disease in sub Saharan Africa where it kills at least one million people every year (United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF 2003). Children are most vulnerable to malaria...
Malaria is still a devastating disease in sub Saharan Africa where it kills at least one million people every year (United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF 2003). Children are most vulnerable to malaria...
This development outreach newsletter includes some of the following headlines: special report: reaching the poor with health services. Vigilance, hope and hard work; by Abdo S. Yaazbeck and Davidson R...