Structural solutions? Impacts of cash and care provision on adolescent HIV prevention and adherence in Southern Africa.
11 March 2015, 1pm GMT

There is now strong evidence of the importance of structural drivers of the HIV-epidemic. As a result, increasing interest has focused on social protection as a possible solution to prevention. But questions and debates continue:

• Should cash transfers be unconditional or conditioned?
• Are cash transfers enough or do we need 'cash plus care'?
• How do biomedical interventions work with social protection?
• How are we going to pay for social protection?
• Can social protection address new challenges such as ART and PMTCT adherence?

The webinar presents some of the latest evidence in this area and proposes ways to approach these questions.

Dr Lucie Cluver is an Associate Professor at Oxford University and the University of Cape Town. She works closely with UNICEF, WHO, PEPFAR-USAID and the South African government to develop rigorous research on social protection and children affected by AIDS. She is lucky - she says - to have exceptional collaborators and a dynamic team of doctoral and postdoctoral students who are all slightly cleverer than she is.
 

RESOURCES

• Child-focused state cash transfers and adolescent risk of HIV infection in South Africa: a propensity-score-matched case-control study
• Cash plus care: social protection cumulatively mitigates HIV-risk behaviour among adolescents in South Africa

PARTICIPATE

Depending on your location, the time of the Learning Lab will be:

9:00am Washington DC
1:00pm London
2:00pm Geneva
3:00pm Johannesburg
4:00pm Kampala/Mwanza
6:30pm New Delhi/Bangalore

To take part in this month’s Learning Lab, register here.