Combination interventions to address mental health in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), are crucial to achieving the UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets as one in four adolescents living with HIV (ALWHIV) experience poor mental health and this contributes to suboptimal medication adherence and lack of viral suppression. Yet few evidence-based interventions have been evaluated in sub–Saharan Africa (SSA), the region where the majority of the 1.7 million ALWHIV reside. The Streamlined Treatment and Evidence-based Adolescent counseling and Medication Support (STREAMS) project will evaluate if our streamlined combination intervention approach to mental health screening, provision of evidence-based interpersonal psychotherapy groups (IPT-G), and evidence-based family strengthening, and medication counseling is feasible and efficacious for ALWHIV in Uganda.
Project Investigators
Philip Kreniske
Assistant Professor of Community Health and Social Sciences
Chloe Teasdale
Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Sasha Fleary
Associate Professor of Community Health and Social Sciences
