Access of choice-disabled young women in Botswana to government structural support programmes
A cross-sectional study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19438544 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne Cockcroft (0000-0002-1558-1106, CIET Trust Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana, corresponding author), Nobantu Marokoane (CIET Trust Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana), Leagajang Kgakole (CIET Trust Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana), Nametsego Tswetla (National AIDS Coordinating Agency, Gaborone, Botswana), Neil Andersson (0000-0002-5220-2136, CIET Trust Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | sup2 |
| Pages | 24-27 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | AIDS Care (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0954-0121 • E-ISSN: 1360-0451 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09540121.2018.1468009 |
| PMID | 29848044 |
| OpenAlex | W2805318343 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 9 |
Structural factors like poverty, poor education, gender inequality, and gender violence are important in the HIV epidemic in southern Africa. Such factors constrain many people from making choices to protect themselves against HIV. The INSTRUCT cluster randomised controlled trial of a structural intervention for HIV prevention includes workshops for young women which link them with existing government structural support programmes. Fieldworkers identified all young women aged 15-29 years in each intervention community, not in school and not in work, interviewed them, and invited them to a workshop. Choice-disability factors were common. Among the 3516 young women, 64% had not completed secondary education, 35% did not have enough food in the last week, 21% with a partner had been beaten by their partner in the last year, and 8% reported being forced to have sex. Of those aged 18 and above, 45% had applied to any government support programme and 28% had been accepted into a programme; these rates were only 33% and 10% when Ipelegeng, a part-time minimum wage rotating employment scheme with no training or development elements, was excluded. Multivariate analysis considering all programmes showed that women over 20 and very poor women with less education were more likely to apply and to be accepted. But excluding Ipelegeng, young women with more education were more likely to be accepted into programmes. The government structural support programmes were not designed to benefit young women or to prevent HIV. Our findings confirm that programme use by marginalised young women is low and, excluding Ipelegeng, the programmes do not target choice disabled young women
Cross-sectional study · Economic growth · Economics · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.75 |
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| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |