Economic outcomes among microfinance group members receiving community-based chronic disease care: Cluster randomized trial evidence from Kenya

M. Wilson-Barthes, J. Steingrimsson, Y. Lee, D.N. Tran, J. Wachira, C. Kafu, S.D. Pastakia, R. Vedanthan, J.A. Said, B.L. Genberg and Omar Galarraga

Social Science & Medicine, 2024, vol. 351, issue C

Abstract: Poverty can be a robust barrier to HIV care engagement. We assessed the extent to which delivering care for HIV, diabetes and hypertension within community-based microfinance groups increased savings and reduced loan defaults among microfinance members living with HIV.

Keywords: HIV; Non-communicable diseases; Microfinance; Poverty; Group medical visits; Sub-Saharan Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953624004374
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:socmed:v:351:y:2024:i:c:s0277953624004374

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/supportfaq.cws_home/regional
http://www.elsevier. ... _01_ooc_1&version=01

DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116993

Access Statistics for this article

Social Science & Medicine is currently edited by Ichiro (I.) Kawachi and S.V. (S.V.) Subramanian

More articles in Social Science & Medicine from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().