IBIS-Health
Study period:Ongoing.
The overall objective of the IBIS-Health Study (Innovative Incentive Strategies for Sustainable HIV Testing and Antiretroviral Treatment) is to generate evidence on how best to use low-cost incentives to promote HIV testing among men and high-risk adults and to maximize the benefits of ART among HIV-infected adults in rural Uganda. IBIS-Health uses randomized controlled trials and qualitative research to critically evaluate the sustainability of such interventions.
Objectives
- Assess the comparative effectiveness of lottery, loss aversion, and fixed incentives for increasing HIV testing among men.
- Determine whether HIV-infected men and women are more likely to achieve and maintain HIV virologic suppression if offered financial incentives vs. no incentives (standard of care).
- Assess the comparative effectiveness of deposit contracts (a form of incentives that leverages loss aversion) vs. gain-framed incentives, compared to no incentives (control), to promote repeat HIV testing among high-risk HIV-uninfected adults.
- Principal Investigator: Dalsone Kwarisiima, Harsha Thirumurthy, Moses R. Kamya
- Co-Investigators: Gabriel Chamie, Carol Camlin,Diane V. Havlir
- Project Manager: Kara Marson
- Project Coordinator:Alex Ndyabakira,
