NCT01333826|Completed
Schooling, Income, and HIV Risk in Malawi
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Does Schooling Protect Young Women From HIV?
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Does Schooling Protect Young Women From HIV?
Sponsor study identifier
Secondary identifiers
OTHER_GRANT · World Bank
interventional
3,796
1 country
1
Study Start
September 2007
Date type not reportedThis date has not been verified as actual or estimated.
Primary Completion
September 2012
Actual (reported)Study Completion
May 31, 2025
Actual (reported)This study is designed to evaluate a two-year randomized intervention in Malawi that provides cash transfers to current schoolgirls (and young women who have recently dropped out of school) to stay in (and return to) school in order to understand the possible effects of such programs on the sexual behavior of the beneficiaries and their subsequent HIV risk.
Registry-reported information. Elapsed time and enrollment totals alone do not measure study progress or recruitment pace.
May 31, 2025
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September 2007
Date type not reportedThis date has not been verified as actual or estimated.
April 11, 2011
Actual (reported)April 12, 2011
Actual (reported)September 2012
Actual (reported)May 31, 2025
Actual (reported)Sexually Transmitted Infections
HIV prevalence HSV-2 prevalence
18 months
Schooling
school enrollment
12 months/24 months
Sexually Transmitted Infections
18 months
Marriage and fertility
12 months/24 months
sexual behavior
12 months/ 24 months
HIV Awareness
12 months/24 months
Monthly cash transfers given to households with school aged girls with no strings attached. Transfer amounts randomized within this arm.
Monthly cash transfers given to households with school aged girls conditional on regular school attendance (80%). Transfer amounts randomized within this arm.
No cash transfer program implemented in this group.
Cash transfers were provided monthly to a randomly selected sample of school aged girls. Amounts were also varied in both treatment arms.
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Zomba District, Malawi
Zomba, Malawi
Baird S, Chirwa E, McIntosh C, Ozler B. The short-term impacts of a schooling conditional cash transfer program on the sexual behavior of young women. Health Econ. 2010 Sep;19 Suppl:55-68. doi: 10.1002/hec.1569.
Baird SJ, Garfein RS, McIntosh CT, Ozler B. Effect of a cash transfer programme for schooling on prevalence of HIV and herpes simplex type 2 in Malawi: a cluster randomised trial. Lancet. 2012 Apr 7;379(9823):1320-9. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61709-1. Epub 2012 Feb 15.
Berk Ozler, PhD
World Bank
Craig T McIntosh, PhD
University of California, San Diego
Sarah J Baird, PhD
George Washington University
Ephraim Chirwa, PhD
University of Malawi
3,796 participants (actual enrollment reported by the registry).
First Submitted
April 11, 2011
First Posted
April 12, 2011
Study Start
September 2007
Date type not reportedThis date has not been verified as actual or estimated.
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Richard S Garfein, PhD
University of California, San Diego
Primary Completion
September 2012
Actual (reported)Study Completion
May 31, 2025
Actual (reported)Last Updated
August 20, 2025
Record last verified: 2025-08
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