A group-based mental health intervention for young people living with HIV in Tanzania: results of a pilot individually randomized group treatment trial.

Dow DE, Mmbaga BT, Gallis JA, Turner EL, Gandhi M, Cunningham CK, O'Donnell KE. A group-based mental health intervention for young people living with HIV in Tanzania: results of a pilot individually randomized group treatment trial. BMC public health. 2020 Sep 4;20(20). 1358 p. PMID: 32887558 [PubMed] PMCID: PMC7487650

Increasing numbers of young people living with HIV (YPLWH) have unaddressed mental health challenges. Such challenges are associated with poor antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence and high mortality. Few evidence-based mental health interventions exist to improve HIV outcomes among YPLWH.