Background
viral suppression
In recent years, public health researchers across different domains have recognized the importance of planning and developing health interventions responsive to the healthcare needs of priority populations to ensure their impact where they are delivered [According to implementation literature, implementing new interventions into practice is complicated since it involves a series of interlinked phases, such as pre-implementation (adoption), implementation, and post-implementation (sustainability) [A review on adoption by Wisdom et al. has highlighted the importance of attitudes of individual providers toward an intervention in influencing intervention adoption [The CombinADO study (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04930367) is a cluster-randomized trial (cRCT) of a novel multi-component HIV care package that aims to improve HIV outcomes such as viral suppression, retention, and adherence to ART among adolescents and young adults living with HIV (AYAHIV), ages 10–24 years, in routine HIV care in Nampula, northern Mozambique. Following the successful participatory development of the study interventions based on the identified needs surrounding the treatment of AYAHIV within this setting, we sought to understand the attitudes of stakeholders providing HIV care among AYAHIV in adopting interventions within health facilities [