Education and HIV/AIDS Prevention : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Western Kenya

The authors report results from a randomized evaluation comparing three school-based HIV/AIDS interventions in Kenya: (1) training teachers in the Kenyan Government's HIV/AIDS-education curriculum; (2) encouraging students to debate the role of condoms and to write essays on how to protect them...

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Main Authors:	Duflo, Esther, Dupas, Pascaline, Kremer, Michael, Sinei, Samuel
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	World Development Report 2007
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9090

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spelling	okr-10986-90902021-04-23T14:02:44Z Education and HIV/AIDS Prevention : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Western Kenya Duflo, Esther Dupas, Pascaline Kremer, Michael Sinei, Samuel World Development Report 2007 The authors report results from a randomized evaluation comparing three school-based HIV/AIDS interventions in Kenya: (1) training teachers in the Kenyan Government's HIV/AIDS-education curriculum; (2) encouraging students to debate the role of condoms and to write essays on how to protect themselves against HIV/AIDS; and (3) reducing the cost of education. Their primary measure of the effectiveness of these interventions is teenage childbearing, which is associated with unprotected sex. The authors also collected measures of knowledge, attitudes, and behavior regarding HIV/AIDS. After two years, girls in schools where teachers had been trained were more likely to be married in the event of a pregnancy. The program had little other impact on students' knowledge, attitudes, and behavior, or on the incidence of teen childbearing. The condom debates and essays increased practical knowledge and self-reported use of condoms without increasing self-reported sexual activity. Reducing the cost of education by paying for school uniforms reduced dropout rates, teen marriage, and childbearing. 2012-06-26T15:37:56Z 2012-06-26T15:37:56Z 2006-10 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9090 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Africa
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description	The authors report results from a randomized evaluation comparing three school-based HIV/AIDS interventions in Kenya: (1) training teachers in the Kenyan Government's HIV/AIDS-education curriculum; (2) encouraging students to debate the role of condoms and to write essays on how to protect themselves against HIV/AIDS; and (3) reducing the cost of education. Their primary measure of the effectiveness of these interventions is teenage childbearing, which is associated with unprotected sex. The authors also collected measures of knowledge, attitudes, and behavior regarding HIV/AIDS. After two years, girls in schools where teachers had been trained were more likely to be married in the event of a pregnancy. The program had little other impact on students' knowledge, attitudes, and behavior, or on the incidence of teen childbearing. The condom debates and essays increased practical knowledge and self-reported use of condoms without increasing self-reported sexual activity. Reducing the cost of education by paying for school uniforms reduced dropout rates, teen marriage, and childbearing.
author	Duflo, Esther Dupas, Pascaline Kremer, Michael Sinei, Samuel
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title	Education and HIV/AIDS Prevention : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Western Kenya
title_short	Education and HIV/AIDS Prevention : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Western Kenya
title_full	Education and HIV/AIDS Prevention : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Western Kenya
title_fullStr	Education and HIV/AIDS Prevention : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Western Kenya
title_full_unstemmed	Education and HIV/AIDS Prevention : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Western Kenya
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Education and HIV/AIDS Prevention : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Western Kenya

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