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Small payments to low-income people lead to big drops in HIV deaths

Study of 42 nations shows a link between cash-transfer programmes and improvements in rates of HIV infection and mortality.
A South African woman gets tested for HIV by an health worker working with Doctors withour borders (MSF) at a mobile clinic.

A health worker in South Africa administers an HIV test. People are more likely to take such tests in countries with cash-transfer programmes than in countries without. Credit: Gianluigi Guercia/AFP/Getty

Programmes that provide cash payments to poor families do more than reduce poverty: they can help to reduce HIV infections and deaths from AIDS1.

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Nature 607, 639 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01968-6

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  1. Richterman, A. & Thirumurthy, H. Nature Hum. Behav. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01414-7 (2022).

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