Dr. Berk Ozler, a senior economist at the World Bank took part in the research “We knew that Malawi was a poor country with a high HIV problem particularly among adolescent girls and young women, especially in the south where we ended up doing our study. So we said, why don’t we start this little pilot experiment to see as a proof of concept whether small amounts of cash transfers can reduce the risk of getting infected?”
Berk Ozler博士是世界银行的一位高级经济学家，他参与了这项研究。他说：“我们都知道马拉维是一个贫困的国家，艾滋病感染率很高，尤其多发于青春期少女和年轻女性中。而在我们最后研究的南部地区，这一现象更为突出。因此，我们就考虑到：为什么不启动这样一个试点项目，来验证小额的现金援助是否能减少感染艾滋病的风险。 ”
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“A lot of times young girls will drop out of school very early, like age 14, 15, 16. And soon after that, their fertility, their child bearing starts and then they get married. And the earlier you’re getting married the older your husband or your sexual partners tend to be. That’s essentially the link toward unprotected – not necessarily risk per se – but unprotected sexual behavior in an environment where older men have a significant chance of being HIV positive,” says Ozler.
“很多时候，女孩们在十四、五六岁的年纪就早早地辍学。之后不久，她们具备了生育能力，怀上孩子，然后便结婚。而越早结婚的人，她的丈夫或性伴侣的年纪就越大，但偏偏年长的男性携带艾滋病病毒的可能性非常大，在这种情况下，与之发生无保护的性行为，受感染的风险就很高。但事实上，这种风险原本是可以避免的，因此导致艾滋病高感染率的关键原因与无保护性行为直接相关。”
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