Study setting
This trial is embedded in the Africa Health Research Institute’s (AHRI) multidisciplinary adolescent and youth programme in AHRI’s demographic surveillance area in uMkhanyakude district in rural KZN, SA [The trial will be conducted in 40 areas (clusters) of AHRI’s surveillance area that have been purposively selected to include areas where peer navigators are working and reflect a range of rural, peri-urban and urban settings. The clusters have distinctive boundaries based on roads and rivers to minimise the risk of contamination/spill-over.