Evaluating a Mental Health Intervention to Improve Mental Health and HIV outcomes among HIV-Positive Tanzanian Youth

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  • NIH-Fogarty International Center

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  • Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre

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Evaluating a Mental Health Intervention to Improve Mental Health and HIV outcomes among HIV-Positive Tanzanian Youth

Aim 1: Establish a tool kit for HIV adolescent care by adapting and translating a HIV curriculum and mental health intervention, such that training for lay-counselors can be implemented in additional HIV adolescent clinics in Tanzania. Aim 2: Determine if a lay-counselor delivered mental health intervention improves mental health and anti-retro viral therapy adherence.

Attention to mental health among this vulnerable HIV-positive adolescent population is critical. Evidence-based support of the impact of a mental health intervention is likely to have local and national policy implications for implementation of mental health services as standard of care in HIV adolescent clinics.

Last updated on September 19, 2022