TY  - BOOK
AU  - Packel,Laura
AU  - De Walque,Damien
AU  - Dow,William H.
AU  - Isdahl,Zachary
AU  - Majura,Albert
AU  - Packel,Laura
TI  - Sexual Behavior Change Intentions and Actions in the Context of a Randomized Trial of a Conditional Cash Transfer for HIV Prevention in Tanzania
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - The World Bank
KW  - Adolescent Health
KW  - Conditional Cash Transfers
KW  - Gender and Health
KW  - Health Monitoring & Evaluation
KW  - Health, Nutrition and Population
KW  - HIV AIDS
KW  - HIV/AIDS
KW  - Population Policies
KW  - Sexually Transmitted Infections
KW  - Social Development
N2  - Information, education, communication and interventions based on behavioral-change communication have had success in increasing the awareness of HIV. But these strategies alone have been less successful in changing risky sexual behavior. This paper addresses this issue by exploring the link between action and the intention to change behaviors. In Africa, uncertainty in the lives of those at risk for HIV may affect how intentions are formed. Characterize this uncertainty by understanding the reasons for discrepancies between intentions and actions may help improve the design of HIV-prevention interventions. Based on an incentives-based HIV prevention trial in Tanzania, the longitudinal dataset in this paper allows the exploration of intended strategies for changing sexual behaviors and their results. The authors find that gender, intervention groups and new positive diagnoses of sexually transmitted infections can significantly predict the link between intent and action. The paper examines potential mediators of these relationships
UR  - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-5997
ER  -