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The efficacy and cost‐effectiveness of a family‐based economic empowerment intervention (Suubi + Adherence) on suppression of HIV viral loads among adolescents living with HIV: results from a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in southern Uganda
- Source :
- Journal of the International AIDS Society
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2021.
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Abstract
- Introduction Evidence from low‐resource settings indicates that economic insecurity is a major barrier to HIV treatment adherence. Economic empowerment (EE) interventions have the potential to improve adherence outcomes among adolescents living with HIV (ALWHIV) by mitigating the effects of poverty. This study aims to assess the efficacy and cost‐effectiveness of a savings‐led family‐based EE intervention, Suubi + Adherence, aimed at improving antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence outcomes ALWHIV in Uganda. Methods Adolescents (mean age 12 years at enrolment; 56% female) receiving ART for HIV at 39 health centres were randomized to Suubi + Adherence intervention (n = 358) or bolstered standard of care (BSOC; n = 344). A difference‐in‐differences analysis was employed to assess the change in the proportion of virally suppressed adolescents (HIV RNA viral load
- Subjects :
- Male
Cost‐effectiveness analysis
Adolescent
Cost effectiveness
Cost-Benefit Analysis
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Psychological intervention
HIV Infections
Medication Adherence
law.invention
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Randomized controlled trial
law
Intervention (counseling)
Environmental health
Humans
Medicine
Uganda
adolescents
030212 general & internal medicine
Empowerment
Poverty
Research Articles
economic empowerment
media_common
030505 public health
business.industry
savings‐led intervention
Infant, Newborn
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
HIV
Cost-effectiveness analysis
Viral Load
Infectious Diseases
SUUBI
Female
0305 other medical science
business
Viral load
ART
Research Article
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17582652
- Volume :
- 24
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of the International AIDS Society
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fb7ecd207585b4f8b5ab6000a239ce2a