CIPHER Project

The Collaborative Initiative for Paediatric HIV Education and Research (CIPHER) project was undertaken by Keprecon with funding from International AIDS Society (IAS) between August 2015 and July 2018. The IAS grant was utilized to evaluate the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of financial incentives to motivate pediatric HIV testing in a randomized clinical trial in Kenya.

The project tested whether offering small financial incentives increases uptake of paediatric HIV testing among HIV-infected parents; the most cost-effective financial incentive; the most cost-effective incentive value; and the most applicable cost-utility model.