Setting and Population
ISS
SYNDROME, IMMUNE SUPPRESSION
This study was conducted at the Immune Suppression Syndrome (ISS) Clinic of Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital in Southwest Uganda, which is embedded within the second largest medical institution in the country, Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST). There are over 11,000 active patients at the Mbarara ISS Clinic. The adult HIV prevalence in Southwest Uganda is 6.3% [The costing was conducted as part of a study called the Extend study (NCT03928418), which included conducting a RCT to examine the efficacy, cost, and acceptability of the intervention. The study procedures were approved by the Institutional Review Boards of the Mbarara University of Science and Technology and the University of California, San Francisco and the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology.