title: Cash transfers for HIV prevention: considering their potential.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Cash payments to vulnerable households and/or individuals have increasingly garnered attention as a means to reduce poverty, improve health and achieve other development-related outcomes. Recent evidence from Malawi and Tanzania suggests that cash transfers can impact HIV-related behaviours and outcomes and, therefore, could serve as an important addition to HIV prevention efforts.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This article reviews the current evidence on cash transfers for HIV prevention and suggests unresolved questions for further research. Gaps include (1) understanding more about the mechanisms and pathways through which cash transfers affect HIV-related outcomes; (2) addressing key operational questions, including the potential feasibility and the costs and benefits of different models of transfers and conditionality; and (3) evaluating and enhancing the wider impacts of cash transfers on health and development.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Ongoing and future studies should build on current findings to unpack unresolved questions and to collect additional evidence on the multiple impacts of transfers in different settings. Furthermore, in order to address questions on sustainability, cash transfer programmes need to be integrated with other sectors and programmes that address structural factors such as education and programming to promote gender equality and address HIV.
authors: Faculty of Public Health and Policy, Department of Global Health and Development, The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), London, UK. lori.heise@lshtm.ac.uk
authors: Lori
authors: L
authors: Heise
authors: Brian
authors: B
authors: Lutz
authors: Meghna
authors: M
authors: Ranganathan
authors: Charlotte
authors: C
authors: Watts
mesh_terms: D018562:Disease Transmission, Infectious / Q000191:economics* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005191:Family Characteristics; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000191:economics* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D008295:Malawi; D009042:Motivation; D013636:Tanzania
keywords: HIV and incentives; cash transfers and HIV; conditional cash transfers (CCTs) and HIV; social protection and HIV; structural drivers and HIV
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