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The problem
Intervention: Family-based economic empowerment intervention (Suubi+Adherence) tailored to address unique developmental and social vulnerabilities of adolescents living with HIV
Who it was tested with: Adolescents living with HIV aged 10-16 years with detectable viral loads at baseline in southern Uganda (158 in intervention group, 130 in control group across 39 health care clinics).
Children or communities are compared with a group that did not receive the intervention, or followed over years. This is the design that best separates what the intervention did from everything else that changed.
"We carried out a five-year longitudinal cluster randomized trial (ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT01790373) with adolescents living with HIV (ALWHIV) ages 10 to 16 years clustered at health care clinics to test the effect of a family economic empowerment (EE) intervention on viral suppression." This is a randomized controlled trial design comparing intervention and control groups followed over five years with a clearly defined biological outcome measure (viral suppression).
The report does not specify which components of the economic empowerment intervention were most effective or the mechanisms by which economic support improves treatment adherence. The exact nature and intensity of the intervention content is not detailed. Cost-effectiveness and scalability analyses are identified as needed but not provided.
Across countries and designs
6 studies · 1 country
