Conditional cash transfer programs are innovative social safety-net programs that aim to relieve poverty. They provide a regular source of income to poor families and are “conditional” in that they ...

The world's largest conditional cash transfer programme, the Bolsa Família Programme (BFP), is associated with a substantial reduction in AIDS cases and deaths, especially among brown and black women ...

Brazil's Bolsa Família Program (BFP), one of the world's largest conditional cash transfer programmes, was responsible for the reduction of more than half the number of tuberculosis cases and deaths ...

In 2024, Brazil celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Bolsa Família Programme (BFP), one of the world’s largest conditional cash transfer initiatives. A new study published in The Lancet Public ...

Opportunity NYC–Family Rewards was the first conditional cash transfer, randomized controlled trial for low-income families in the United States. From 2007 to 2010, Family Rewards offered 2,377 New ...

What if the best medicine isn't a pill or vaccine — but it's cold cash? The study is impressive in its scale. Researchers combined two Brazilian datasets — one from the Ministry of Health and one that ...

Brazil’s Bolsa Família Program (BFP), one of the world’s largest conditional cash transfer programmes, was responsible for the reduction of more than half the number of tuberculosis cases and deaths ...

The study is impressive in its scale. Researchers combined two Brazilian datasets — one from the Ministry of Health and one that tracks social programs for the poorest half of the population — ...

A program in Brazil that gives a monthly cash sum to families living in poverty has an unexpected — and welcome result. A new study shows that... Tuberculosis rates plunge when families living in ...