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The problem
Intervention: Family economic empowerment intervention plus bolstered standard care to support medication adherence
Who it was tested with: 702 adolescents living with HIV in Uganda (average age 12.4 years), approximately 50% girls and 50% boys.
Children or communities are compared with a group that did not receive the intervention, or followed over years. This is the design that best separates what the intervention did from everything else that changed.
"Data from a cluster randomized clinical trial were analyzed. A total of 702 adolescents (average age of 12.4) were randomized to either a control arm receiving bolstered standard of care or the treatment arm receiving bolstered standard of care plus a family economic empowerment intervention." The study uses a rigorous randomized design with comparison groups and 12-month follow-up measurement, making it experimental, though the intervention showed no benefit on the measured outcomes.
The study does not identify why the economic empowerment intervention failed to improve HIV knowledge or prevention attitudes, nor does it explain the mechanisms driving gender differences. The analysis does not explore whether the intervention was differentially effective by gender or examine potential confounding factors.
Across countries and designs
6 studies · 1 country
