Many women interact with the South African social security system in relation to the Child
Support Grant (CSG), which is social assistance payable for children living with low-income …

Background Evidence suggests that social protection policies such as Brazil's Bolsa Família
Programme (BFP), a governmental conditional cash transfer, may play a role in tuberculosis …

Although cash transfers (CT) are hypothesized to reduce AGYW's HIV risk, little is known
about the mechanisms through which CT empower AGYW. We explored the impact of a CT …

Social protection can reduce HIV-risk behavior in general adolescent populations, but
evidence among HIV-positive adolescents is limited. This study quantitatively tests whether …

Objective To explore the influence of loneliness on sleep behavior and sleep quality based
on propensity score-matched samples in Southwest China. Methods Individual-level data …

Background Mental health and poverty are strongly interlinked. There is a gap in the
literature on the effects of poverty alleviation programmes on mental health. We aim to fill …

Argues that South Africans, like everyone else, need democracy for a more equal society
What are democracies meant to do? And how does one know when one is a democratic …

Using data from a randomized field experiment with 552 households, nested within 40
villages and townships in South Africa, we examine the impact of a brief financial literacy …

Evidence-based approaches are needed to address the high levels of sexual risk behavior
and associated HIV infection among orphaned and vulnerable adolescents. This study …

Background Structural interventions are endorsed to enhance biomedical and behavioural
HIV prevention programmes for adolescents. Aiming to inform future interventions, we …