Evaluating a Youth-Focused Economic Empowerment Approach to HIV Treatment Adherence
| Status: | Completed |
|---|---|
| Conditions: | HIV / AIDS |
| Therapuetic Areas: | Immunology / Infectious Diseases |
| Healthy: | No |
| Age Range: | 10 - 16 |
| Updated: | 7/21/2018 |
| Start Date: | September 7, 2013 |
| End Date: | January 23, 2018 |
Suubi+Adherence: Evaluating a Youth-Focused Economic Empowerment Approach to HIV Treatment Adherence
The goal of Suubi+Adherence is to examine the impact and cost associated with an innovative
intervention to increase adherence to HIV treatment for HIV-infected adolescents. Multiple
intervention studies by our team in Rakai and Masaka Districts of southern Uganda with
AIDS-orphaned adolescents have revealed that if given an opportunity to participate in
economic empowerment interventions, youth and their caregivers take full advantage of these
interventions to save and invest in their future, show improvements in family financial
outcomes, future aspirations, health functioning, sexual-risk taking behaviors, and mental
health. The Suubi+Adherence study capitalizes on this prior work, positing that economic
empowerment may be a missing, yet critical ingredient to HIV treatment adherence
interventions for adolescents and young people. Suubi+Adherence incorporates an economic
empowerment design, with a savings-led income generating component, to promote economic
stability, and apply it to adherence to HIV treatment regimens for HIV-positive adolescents
in a region of southern Uganda with the highest HIV incidence and prevalence in the country.
intervention to increase adherence to HIV treatment for HIV-infected adolescents. Multiple
intervention studies by our team in Rakai and Masaka Districts of southern Uganda with
AIDS-orphaned adolescents have revealed that if given an opportunity to participate in
economic empowerment interventions, youth and their caregivers take full advantage of these
interventions to save and invest in their future, show improvements in family financial
outcomes, future aspirations, health functioning, sexual-risk taking behaviors, and mental
health. The Suubi+Adherence study capitalizes on this prior work, positing that economic
empowerment may be a missing, yet critical ingredient to HIV treatment adherence
interventions for adolescents and young people. Suubi+Adherence incorporates an economic
empowerment design, with a savings-led income generating component, to promote economic
stability, and apply it to adherence to HIV treatment regimens for HIV-positive adolescents
in a region of southern Uganda with the highest HIV incidence and prevalence in the country.
Inclusion Criteria:
- HIV-positive adolescents confirmed by medical report
- Prescribed antiretroviral therapy
- Enrolled in care at one of 40 medical clinics within study region
- 10-16 years of age
- Living within a family (not necessarily with biological parent(s))
Exclusion Criteria:
- Not HIV-positive
- HIV-positive but not prescribed antiretroviral therapy
- Not enrolled in care at one of 40 medical clinics within study region
- Younger than 10 years and older than 16 years
- Not living within a family
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2
sites
Masaka,
Principal Investigator: Fred M Ssewamala, MSW, PhD
Phone: +256-793-888-711
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New York, New York 10027
Principal Investigator: Fred M Ssewamala, MSW, PhD
Phone: 212-851-2224
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