Incentives matter: anti-Aids file

A report from FT.com tells us that the World Bank backs anti-Aids experiment. The article says

Thousands of people in Africa will be paid to avoid unsafe sex, under a groundbreaking World Bank-backed experiment aimed at halting the spread of Aids.

The $1.8m trial – to be launched this year – will counsel 3,000 men and women aged 15-30 in southern rural Tanzania over three years, paying them on condition that periodic laboratory test results prove they have not contracted sexually transmitted infections.

Its one way to try and get incentives working for you rather than against you.