The SASA! Study: An Evaluation of a Community Intervention to Address Gender-based Violence and Reduce HIV/AIDS Risk in Uganda

Summary

The SASA! Study is a cluster randomized trial of a community mobilization intervention for the prevention of HIV and gender based violence. The study is being conducted in Kampala, Uganda.

Conditions

• Intimate Partner Violence
• HIV

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

SASA!

A community mobilization approach to try to change community and individual attitudes and behaviours that support both the perpetration of violence against women and HIV risk behaviours The intervention team engages with four major groups of actors: community volunteers selected from the general public; community leaders (e.g. religious, cultural and local council leaders); resource persons (health care providers, police, etc); and institutional leaders. The community volunteers are a key component of the intensive intervention.

OTHER

Control

Control communities will receive the full SASA! intervention after completion of the SASA! Study. For the duration of the study, they will receive a less intensive intervention comprising the Division-level elements of SASA! (involving community leaders, resource persons and institutional leaders) without the community volunteers.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Raising Voices

  collaborator OTHER

• Centre for Domestic Violence Prevention, Uganda

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Makerere University

  collaborator OTHER

• Sigrid Rausing Trust

  collaborator OTHER

• Irish Aid

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Stephen Lewis Foundation

  collaborator OTHER

• London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Charlotte Watts, PhD · London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

49 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2007-10-31

Primary Completion

2012-05-31

Completion

2012-05-31

Countries

• Uganda

Study Locations