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Integrating iSYV Within HIV Clinical Care for Youth Living With HIV in Tanzania

NCT07621510 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 5000

Last updated 2026-06-02

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Summary

Youth living with HIV (YLWH) experience mental health (MH) challenges that compromise their HIV care. Though the MH gap is well described, MH service delivery to YLWH is rare, especially in low resource settings. MH professionals are few and interventions tailored to the needs of this population are scarce. This project proposes a way to bridge the gap by streamlining the Sauti ya Vijana (SYV, The Voice of Youth) intervention redesigned to integrate into the differentiated HIV clinical care model in Tanzania. SYV is a peer-led, group-based treatment designed with and for YLWH to address their self-reported MH challenges and stressors living with HIV.

Conditions

  • HIV -1 Infection
  • Mental Health Issue

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

iSYV (integrated Sauti ya Vijana; The Voice of Youth)

Integrated "i"SYV is a streamlined version of the original intervention SYV that is adapted for integration into routine clinical care. The original SYV intervention included 10 group weekly sessions (2 incorporating caregivers) and 2 individual sessions with adaptation to fit without routine adolescent HIV care based on Tanzanian National HIV Guidelines for HIV care follow up visits.

OTHER

mHealth

A gamified version of iSYV that can be played via SMS or Whatsapp messaging.

OTHER

eSOC

mental health screening and referral within the standard of care for moderate to severe symptoms

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Dorothy Dow, MD, MSc · Duke Universtiy

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
15 Years
Max Age
24 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2027-01-10
Primary Completion
2029-03-31
Completion
2030-09-30

Countries

  • Tanzania

Study Locations

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