Recruitment

Recruitment Status
Completed

Summary

Conditions
HIV
Type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 2
Design
Allocation: RandomizedIntervention Model: Parallel AssignmentMasking: None (Open Label)Primary Purpose: Prevention

Participation Requirements

Age
Younger than 125 years
Gender
Both males and females

Description

This study examines the impact of school support as a structural intervention, tested among adolescent orphans in Siaya District, Nyanza Province, Kenya. Aims for the proposed study are: 1) To experimentally test whether providing comprehensive school support to Kenyan orphaned boys and girls will r...

This study examines the impact of school support as a structural intervention, tested among adolescent orphans in Siaya District, Nyanza Province, Kenya. Aims for the proposed study are: 1) To experimentally test whether providing comprehensive school support to Kenyan orphaned boys and girls will reduce school dropout, reduce sexual risk behaviors, and prevent HIV/HSV-2 infection; 2) To conduct a process evaluation of the implementation of the program; and 3) To conduct comparative cost effectiveness analyses, specifying the intervention's cost and return on investment as evidenced by cost per unit improvement in the primary outcomes of school enrollment, delay of sexual debut and prevention of risk behaviors and HIV/HSV-2 infection, as well as by gains in health-related quality of life.

Tracking Information

NCT #
NCT01501864
Collaborators
  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
  • Moi University
  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Investigators
Principal Investigator: Hyunsan Cho, Ph.D. Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation