NCT05947539Enrolling by invitation
Improving HIV Care Engagement Among Ugandan Adolescent Girls and Young Women: The Kisoboka Mukwano Intervention
Improving HIV Care Engagement Among Ugandan Adolescent Girls and Young Women Through Reductions in Male Partner Alcohol Use and Intimate Partner Violence Risk: The Kisoboka Mukwano Intervention
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 26 Dec 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study will develop and pilot test a couples-based intervention to help adolescent girls and young women living with HIV (WLHIV (15-24 years) living in Uganda access HIV care and improve the outcomes of their HIV treatment by targeting male partner alcohol use to reduce IPV risk.
- Status (registry)
- Enrolling by invitation
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 80 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 22 Mar 2023
- Start date
- 1 Jul 2023
- Primary completion date
- 30 Oct 2026
- Lead sponsor
- Arizona State University
- Diseases
- HIV
- NCT number
- NCT05947539
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 80
- From 1 Jul 2023 to the primary completion date, 30 Oct 2026
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- reporting any severe physical IPV experienced in prior 3 months.
- Couples (male and female):
Other
- AGYW (female):
- do not speak Luganda or English
- do not feel they cannot safely participate in the study.
Who the study is looking for
- Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW)/Female:
- aged 18-24 or self-reported as emancipated minors aged 15-17,
- HIV+
- meets one or more of the following non-engagement criteria: not currently enrolled in an HIV clinic (e.g., never enrolled, dropped out); not currently taking ART; missed 1 or more scheduled HIV care appointments requiring physical presence (e.g., viral load \[VL\] testing) in the last 12 months; \< 90% ART adherence in the last 2 weeks; most recent VL\>1000 or expected recent VL test results absent in clinic records despite initiating ART \>6 months ago
- self-report a history of at least one incident of IPV (physical, sexual, and/or emotional) and/or controlling behavior ever perpetrated by their current male partner
- agree to let research staff contact their male partner.
- Male Partners of AGYW/Male:
- aged 18+ years or emancipated minors
- report consuming ≥ 6 drinks per occasion at least once or more in the prior 30 days or scores 4 or more on the AUDIT (Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test)-C
- Couples (each partner (male and female) must independently report):
- married or living together as if married for ≥6 months
- planning to stay together for at least another 2 months (intervention period)
- lived in the Wakiso District area ≥3 months
- not planning to move from the area within the next 6 months
- respond similarly (not exact but close) to questions on the study-developed Couple Verification Screening
Age in the registry: 15 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Makerere Univerisity School of Public Health Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kampala | Uganda | Unknown status |
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