CASH TRANSFERS AND CAREGIVERS: WORKING TOGETHER TO REDUCE VULNERABILITY AND HIV RISK AMONG ADOLESCENT GIRLS IN JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

HIV prevalence among medical students in Johannesburg, South Africa.

A Cash Transfer Program Reduces HIV Infections among Adolescent Girls

A large randomized trial in Malawi shows that schoolgirls whose families received monthly cash transfers had a significantly lower HIV infection rate than the control group. The two-year experiment in Zomba, a district in southern Malawi, offered cash to households with schoolgirls aged 13-22 who had never been married. Some of the offers were conditional on regular school attendance, while oth...

Large Cash Transfers to the Elderly in South Africa

We examine the social pension in South Africa, where large cash sums-about twice the median per capita income of African households-are paid to people qualified by age but irrespective of previous contributions. We present the history of the scheme and use a 1993 nationally representative survey to investigate the redistributive consequences of the transfers, documenting who receive the pension...

HIV-Associated Disseminated Emmonsiosis, Johannesburg, South Africa

Technical Appendix Table 1. Laboratory results at admission for 3 patients with HIV-associated disseminated emmonsiosis, Johannesburg, South Africa* Laboratory investigation Case 1 Case 2 Case 3 Reference range CD4 count 5 cells/μL 3 cells/μL 0 cells/μL 50–2010 cells/μL Leukocyte count 16.91 × 10/L 1.52 ×1 0/L 1.84 × 10/L 4.00–10.00 × 10/L Hemoglobin 8.7 g/dL 11.7 g/dL 7.8 g/dL 14.3–18.3 g/dL M...

Cash Transfers and HIV Prevention