Population: young women aged 15 to 30 years, unemployed and out‐of‐school (baseline dropouts) Intervention of interest: HIV‐sensitive social protection interventions, like work skills training, microfinance, employment support Context: East and Southern African countries with HIV prevalence >2.5% based on UNAIDS Africa ‐ East and Southern: Botswana, Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe Outcomes of interest: socio‐economic outcomes include wage and (self‐)employment, income, earnings, assets, savings, consumption, and capabilities like business, financial or life skills. HIV‐related outcomes include behavioural outcomes like sexual behaviour and intimate partner violence, and biological outcomes: prevalence and incidence of HIV or sexually transmitted illnesses Study design: quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research papers Published in English or French Published from January 2005 to 28 October 2019
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Adolescents with mean age lower than 15 years Young women with mean age older than 29 years Female sex workers Studies reporting data not stratified by gender and age Studies that do not report on both socio‐economic and HIV‐related outcomes Preventive or protective social protection like unconditional cash transfers or emergency relief Interventions focused on return to regular education rather than training in support of livelihood and employability Studies reporting the effect of HIV‐sensitive social protection interventions outside the context of HIV prevention, like testing, linkage to care, adherence to treatment, viral suppression Editorials Commentaries Reviews Conference abstracts and proceedings Protocols
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