Prize-Linked Savings Initiatives for Promoting Better Health and Economic Outcomes in Kenya
Despite a large decline in new adult HIV infections in eastern and southern Africa from 2005-2015, progress has slowed dramatically in recent years and multiple disparities have persisted within countries and between men and women. Most alarmingly, HIV risk among adolescent girls and young women in the region remains extremely high. Transactional sex, or the exchange of material support or goods in non-commercial sexual relationships that are often age-disparate, is widely believed to be among the main driving factors for the HIV risk in this population.