Improving HIV Care Engagement Among Ugandan Adolescent Girls and Young Women: The Kisoboka Mukwano Intervention

Summary

This study will develop and pilot test a couples-based intervention to help adolescent girls and young women living with HIV (WLHIV (15-24 years) living in Uganda access HIV care and improve the outcomes of their HIV treatment by targeting male partner alcohol use to reduce IPV risk.

Conditions

• HIV-infection/Aids
• Intimate Partner Violence
• Domestic Violence
• Alcohol Use Disorder

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Kisoboka Mukwano ("It is possible, my love!") Intervention

The intervention consists of 5 bi-weekly sessions each lasting 60 to 90 minutes. It uses motivational interviewing, peer navigation, and behavioral economics to promote strategies for economic strengthening, reductions in male partner alcohol use, coping with relationship conflict and stress, changing norms that reduce intimate partner violence and support engagement in HIV care and antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence among adolescent girls and young women living with HIV, and, thereby, enhances future sustained viral suppression and benefits of treatment as prevention.

BEHAVIORAL

Screening and Referral

Intimate partner violence screening, alcohol screening, and referral

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

  collaborator NIH

• San Diego State University

  collaborator OTHER

• Makerere University

  collaborator OTHER

• University of California, San Diego

  collaborator OTHER

• Reach the Youth Uganda

  collaborator OTHER

• Arizona State University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Ijeoma Nwabuzor Ogbonnaya, PhD · Arizona State University

• Susan M Kiene, PhD · San Diego State University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

DOUBLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

15 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2023-07-01

Primary Completion

2026-10-30

Completion

2026-10-30

Countries

• Uganda

Study Locations