School Support as Structural HIV Prevention for Adolescent Orphans in Western Kenya

Principal Investigator: Hyunsan Cho
Sponsor: NIH/NIMH
(7/1/2011 - 3/31/2016)

Proposal Abstract
The specific aims for this study are: 1) To experimentally test whether providing comprehensive school support to Luo 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.