Procedures
RECRUITMENT, RECRUITMENT
During the recruitment period, the PE actively screened all young people attending their health facility for inclusion on a rolling basis and obtained written informed consent. The PEs recruited from Monday to Saturday on a strictly rolling basis and followed a screening log file. Recruitment happened at all 20 health facilities concurrently. Illiterate participants provided a thumbprint and chose a literate witness (independent of the trial and chosen by the participant) to co-sign the form. In order to minimize selection bias, the ethics committees agreed to waive parental consent for the 15 to 17 years old study participants. If eligible, the PE administered a questionnaire that included sociodemographic and socioeconomic data, medical history, adherence to ART, quality of life (QoL), HIV/AIDS-related knowledge, and satisfaction with care. If no viral load (VL) within the previous 12 months was available, the participant was sent to the nurse for VL measurement.