Pilot of an Intervention to Reduce Alcohol Use and Improve ART Adherence Among Men Living With HIV With Pregnant Partners in Uganda.

"KISOBOKA AMAKA intervention adapts and combines a behavioral intervention with a structural component. The behavioral intervention component includes, alcohol screening, financial literacy training, and counseling and goal setting related to savings, alcohol use, and HIV care engagement. The structural intervention component focuses on depositing earnings into mobile savings programs. Kisoboka Amaka content will be finalized in aims 1 and 2. However, we expect core intervention components to remain unchanged including: 4 counseling sessions (2 individual, 2 group), 2x weekly text message reminders of goals and mobile money set up. Potential additional components include: 1 family focused couples session, self monitoring of alcohol use (via mobile breathalyzer) and PEth (an objective biomarker measure of alcohol use) boosted alcohol counseling."

Alcohol screening and referral and emphasizing the importance of HIV care engagement and ART adherence