Mozambique: Nampula, ICAP - A Combination Intervention Strategy to Improve Health Outcomes for Adolescents Living with HIV (CombinADO)

This project and site are offered through ICAP at the Mailman School of Public Health

The CombinADO study is a cluster-randomized trial to compare the effectiveness of the CombinADO strategy versus optimized standard of care (SOC) on viral suppression, ART adherence and retention in HIV care among adolescents and young adults living with HIV (AYAHIV) ages 10-24yrs. The study hypothesis is the implementation of a community-informed multicomponent intervention (the ‘CombinADO strategy’) addressing individual, facility and community-level factors will result in improved health outcomes for AYAHIV engaged in HIV services. The CombinADO study is being implemented at 12 health facilities in Nampula, Mozambique. The control condition will be implemented at all facilities (n=12) participating in the trial. The enhanced intervention condition will be superadded to this at a randomly selected half (n=6) of facilities. The study began in Sept 2021.

Mentor at the site/project: Elaine Abrams, MD

Research opportunities available at this site/project:
Summer Research Projects

Thematic Research Areas at this site:
Adolescent Health, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Infectious Diseases

Global Pop funds students from the following CUIMC Schools at this site:
VP&S

Language requirement:
Portuguese

Potential activities that could be carried out by students at this site:
Interviewing/Surveying, Attend regular Team/Site meetings, Data collection, Development of Educational Materials, Community outreach

Other requirements or information:
This site offers on-site orientation upon arrival.