School Support as Structural HIV Prevention for Adolescent Orphans in Kenya

Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE)

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2

Conditions: HIV

Treatments: Behavioral: School Support Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01501864

PIRE-0580

R01MH092215 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to test whether school support can keep adolescent Kenyan orphans in school, reduce sexual risk behaviors, and prevent HIV /HSV-2 infection.

Full 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 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.

Enrollment: 835 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Orphan (one or both parents deceased)
• In Grade 7 or 8 in a primary school participating in the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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835 participants in 2 patient groups

School Support Group

Experimental group

Description:

School Support Intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: School Support Intervention

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

No school support