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LDI Blog Post: Senior Fellow, Dr. Aaron Richterman and colleagues explain that SNAP benefits affects far more than hunger. Research shows it directly influences HIV incidence in the United States.

Dr. Aaron Richterman and colleagues publish study on cash transfer support for pregnant women with HIV in rural Haiti

A new Lancet publication led by Dr. Aaron Richterman and Dr. Harsha Thirumurthy, Division Chief of Health Policy, examines how government-led cash transfer programs improve health in low- and middle-income countries.

“Do we perceive the same reality?” Truth telling and persuasion techniques in Red Pilling narratives about the COVID-19 vaccine

The health dividend of cash transfer programmes

The effect of a social network-based intervention to promote HIV testing and linkage to HIV services among fishermen in Kenya: a cluster-randomised trial

Jitegemee (rely on yourself): a cross-sectional study on acceptability, feasibility and design considerations for a personal savings intervention to reduce HIV risk among female sex workers in Siaya County, Kenya

B-OK: a visual and tactile tool for improving HIV mental models in a United States urban center

Predictors of Clinical Outcomes Among People With Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Tuberculosis Symptoms After Rapid Treatment Initiation in Haiti

Acceptability, Feasibility, and Appropriateness of the B-OK Bottles as an Implementation Strategy for Treatment Adherence Support by Medical Case Managers

High prevalence of STIs among men engaged in transactional sex and alcohol use in western Kenya: important implications for STI prevention interventions

Mental Bandwidth is Associated with HIV and Viral Suppression Among Low-Income Women in Philadelphia

Jitegemee (rely on yourself): a multi-phase process of co-creating a personal savings intervention with female sex workers in western Kenya to reduce their HIV risk

The Effects of Behaviorally Informed Messages on COVID-19 Vaccination Intentions and Behavior: Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments in South Africa

"Do not inject our babies": a social listening analysis of public opinion about authorizing pediatric COVID-19 vaccines

Acceptability, facilitators, and barriers to a hypothetical HIV vaccine in the pre-exposure prophylaxis era

Mobile delivery of COVID-19 vaccines improved uptake in rural Sierra Leone

A Systematic Review of Peer Support Interventions for Adolescents Living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa

Hypertension Diagnosis, Treatment, and Control in India

Improving HIV testing, linkage, and retention in care among South African men through U= U messaging: A study protocol for two sequential hybrid type 1 effectiveness-implementation randomized controlled trials.

Kindergarten Vaccination Status in California After Changes to Medical Exemption Policy

Ending Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Emergency Allotments and Food Insufficiency

Effects Of An Employee COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate At A Long-Term Care Network: Study examines a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employees of a long-term care network

Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine uptake among adults in South Africa: multimethod evidence from a population-based longitudinal study

National Estimates of the Adult Diabetes Care Continuum in India

Maximising the value of nudge units for global health

We must invest in behavioural economics for the HIV response

Behaviour change in the era of biomedical advances

A Randomized Trial of Price Subsidies for Liquefied Petroleum Cooking Gas among Low-income Households in Rural India

Routine Child Immunizations in India during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The effects of cash transfers on adult and child mortality in low- and middle-income countries

Longitudinal changes in COVID-19 vaccination intent among South African adults: evidence from the NIDS-CRAM panel survey, February to May 2021

Dear Pandemic: A topic modeling analysis of COVID-19 information needs among readers of an online science communication campaign

Adaptive Strategies for Retention in Care among Persons Living with HIV

The legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic for childhood vaccination in the USA

A savings intervention to reduce men’s engagement in HIV risk behaviors: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

A quasi-experimental cohort study evaluating a conditional economic incentive on first-dose COVID-19 vaccination rates among older adults in South Africa

Planning and commitment prompts to encourage reporting of HIV self-test results: A cluster randomized pragmatic trial in Tshwane District, South Africa

Incentives to promote accessing HIV care and viral suppression among HIV self-screening test users who obtain a reactive result

Adoption of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis among women at high risk of HIV infection in Kenya.

Adoption of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis among women at high risk of HIV infection in Kenya

Using Behavioral Economics to Support PrEP Adherence for HIV Prevention

The effects of cash transfer programmes on HIV-related outcomes in 42 countries from 1996 to 2019

Detailed Geographic Information, Conflict Exposure, and Health Impacts

Trends in Transactional Sex Among Women at Risk for HIV in Rural Kenya During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Testing a social network approach to promote HIV self-testing and linkage to care among fishermen at Lake Victoria: study protocol for the Owete cluster randomized controlled trial

Association between statewide financial incentive programs and COVID-19 vaccination rates

Effect of universal HIV testing and treatment on socioeconomic wellbeing in rural Kenya and Uganda: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

The effect of providing women sustained access to HIV self-tests on male partner testing, couples testing, and HIV incidence in Kenya: a cluster-randomised trial

Behavioural science to improve effectiveness of HIV programmes, South Africa

Do Incentives Crowd Out Motivation? A Feasibility Study of a Community Vector-Control Campaign in Peru

Participatory Prototyping of a Tailored Undetectable Equals Untransmittable Message to Increase HIV Testing Among Men in Western Cape, South Africa

‘When I have these kits … I have confidence’ – HIV self-testing provides agency for women in their sexual decision-making

Systematic review of clinician-directed nudges in healthcare contexts

Transforming Mental Health Care Delivery Through Implementation Science and Behavioral Economics

Health and Economic Outcomes Associated With COVID-19 in Women at High Risk of HIV Infection in Rural Kenya

Undetectable = Untransmittable (U = U) Messaging Increases Uptake of HIV Testing Among Men: Results from a Pilot Cluster Randomized Trial

HIV testing approaches to reach the first UNAIDS 95% target in sub-Saharan Africa

Behavioral Insights Into Micronutrient Powder Use for Childhood Anemia in Arequipa, Peru

Political partisanship influences behavioral responses to governors’ recommendations for COVID-19 prevention in the United States

A behavioral design approach to improving a Chagas disease vector control campaign in Peru

Financial incentives for achieving and maintaining viral suppression among HIV-positive adults in Uganda: a randomised controlled trial

The US President's Malaria Initiative and under-five child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa.

A qualitative study of secondary distribution of HIV self-test kits by female sex workers in Kenya