Paying to prevent HIV infection in young women?

摘要

Between a quarter and a third of young women in sub-Saharan Africa are infected with HIV by the time they reach their early 20s. Structural factors such as poor education, poverty, and gender and power inequalities are important determinants of young women's vulnerability to HIV infection." However, until now, no rigorously assessed intervention targeting this group has significantly reduced HIV infection and no intervention that targets structural factors has directly affected HIV infection.34 In The Lancet, Sarah Baird and colleagues5 report the results of a randomised controlled trial done with adolescent girls in rural Malawi, examining the effects of a cash transfer programme on risk of HIV infection.