Katherine Gill, Anna-Ursula Happel, Tanya Pidwell, Andrea Mendelsohn, Menna Duyver, Leigh Johnson, Landon Meyer, Catherine Slack, Ann Strode, Eve Mendel, Lauren Fynn, Melissa Wallace, Hans Spiegel, Heather Jaspan, Jo-Ann Passmore, Sybil Hosek, Dionne Smit, Alex Rinehart, Linda-Gail Bekker
INTRODUCTION: Young women in Southern Africa have extremely high HIV incidence rates necessitating the availability of female-controlled prevention methods. Understanding adolescent preference for seeking contraception would improve our understanding of acceptability, feasibility and adherence to similar modes of delivery for HIV prevention. METHODS: UChoose was an open-label randomized crossover study over 32 weeks which aimed to evaluate the acceptability and preference for contraceptive options in healthy, HIV-uninfected, female adolescents aged 15 to 19 years, as a proxy for similar HIV prevention methods...
October 2020: Journal of the International AIDS Society