Margaret Gichane
University of California-San Francisco, CA·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
In Kenya, adolescent girls and young women aged 15 to 24 account for 28% of new HIV diagnoses, and nearly half live in poverty. Poverty raises HIV risk because it makes condomless sex, transactional sex and relationships with much older partners more likely.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Social Science
- Topics
HIV prevention
adolescent girls and young women
Kenya
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Jul 2028
What they work on
- Characterize what economic empowerment means for adolescent girls and young women in Kenya, using qualitative research based on grounded theory.
- Develop and validate a scale that reliably measures economic empowerment among adolescent girls and young women in Kenya.
- Adapt a combination cash transfer intervention through participatory methods, then pilot test its feasibility, acceptability and early effects on economic empowerment and HIV risk behaviors.
More about the research
Helping young women gain economic power could therefore reduce HIV. However, there is no valid, reliable way to measure economic empowerment in this group. Without one, it is hard to design such programs or tell whether they work.
Why it matters
Young women in Kenya bear a heavy burden of both poverty and HIV. A validated measure of economic empowerment, together with a tested cash transfer program, could help health programs design and evaluate HIV prevention that addresses money-related causes of risk. This could lower new infections among adolescent girls and young women in high-burden settings.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
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Emory University, GA·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
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The school
University of California-San Francisco: 89 labs on PI Pages, $2.1B a year on research, 164 research doctorates a year.
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