Child-focused state cash transfers and adolescent risk of HIV infection in South Africa: A propensity-score-matched case-control study

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Cluver, Lucie ^a,b,f   Boyes, Mark ^a   Orkin, Mark ^c   Pantelic, Marija ^a   Molwena, Thembela ^d   Sherr, Lorraine ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d Cape Town Child Welfare Society   (South Africa)

^e ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEW; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SOUTH AFRICA; TRANSACTIONAL SEX; UNSAFE SEX; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HIV INFECTIONS; PROSTITUTION; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL CARE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; FEMALE; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROSTITUTION; PUBLIC ASSISTANCE; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOUTH AFRICA; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; UNSAFE SEX;

EID: 84888343710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(13)70115-3     Document Type: Article

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