PEBRA News
The follow-up of all PEBRA study participants has closed and we are now analyzing the data and writing up the report and manuscript – very eager to see some first results!
So proud of the entire team and grateful to all our participants and involved clinics!
We celebrated this achievement together with all our peer-educators, high up in the mountains with some outdoor activities and a well deserved braai.
The PEBRA team just published in-depth longitudinal preference data from the PEBRA trial. Publication here: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/art/2023/8124192/ Young people living with HIV in Lesotho showed a sustained interest in SMS notifications for adherence and refill visits as well as in additional support by a peer educator. However, medication pick-up outside the health facility was not as popular […]
The final results of the cluster-randomized PEBRA trial were published a few days ago in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS Medicine: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/comments?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004150 Moreover, the PEBRApp developed for PEBRA will now be adapted and used in a similar project in Zambia – more to come…
PEBRA trial main results are ready and were presented by Mathebe Kopo, our Research Coordinator, at the International Workshop of Adolescence & HIV (virtual). More to come soon – watch this space!
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