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    Title:

    A savings intervention to reduce men’s engagement in HIV risk behaviors

    A collaborative study between Impact Research and Development Organization and the University of Pennsylvania in the USA in partnership with Equity bank, Kenya

    Purpose:

    To test the impact of a “prize-linked savings” intervention on men’s engagement in high-risk behaviors (transactional sex and alcohol use), by reducing their spending on these behaviors

    Objectives:

     

    • To determine the effect of the savings intervention on the following on the composite incidence of HIV and other STIs over 24 months
    • To determine the intervention’s effect on the following health and economic outcomes
      1. The total amount of savings and investment
      2. ­Total formal savings, and total household assets
      3. ­Investment behavior such as housing improvements, and schooling expenditures
      4. Expenditures on food and household needs
      5. ­Expenditures on alcohol and transactional sex
      6. ­Expenditures on gambling
      7. ­Self-reported sexual behavior, including number of transactional sex partners, total number of sexual partners and condom use.
      8. ­Alcohol use

     

    Design:

    Randomized Control Trial

    Population:

    Men ages 18-39 years with access to regular cash income and who are at high risk of HIV and STI infection

    Coverage:

    Siaya County

    Duration:

    5 years

    Funding/Sponsor:

    Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

    Local IRB Approval:

    Maseno University Ethics Review Committee – MUERC 1022/2

    Current activities:

    Participant recruitment