HIV Combination Prevention study - User Guide

Data Creators

Monica o. Kuteesa, Helen A. Weiss, Andrew Abaasa, Stephen Nash, Rebecca N. Nsubuga, Rob Newton, Janet Seeley, Anatoli Kamali

Data Description

Dataset and supporting documentation collected as part of the HIV combination prevention study, a cluster randomised trial investigating the feasibility of conducting HIV combination prevention interventions in fishing communities in Uganda. The dataset contains participant-provided responses including condom use, HIV prevention practices, and intervention take-up.

Data Collection Methods

This pilot study was a cluster randomised trial, with four clusters (study communities) selected purposively. A nested cohort of participants was followed within each cluster. We conducted a baseline sero-survey among a population-based sample of adults, followed by two follow-up surveys.

Geographic regions

Wakiso, Kampala

Quality Controls

Data were compared between years for consistency, and corrected where possible (and set as missing where not).

Species:

Human population

Privacy:

Personally identifiable fields such as birth date, village name, interview dates were removed prior to submission. Additional fields that may serve as indirect identifiers were removed by Research Data Manager. Dataset has been resorted and ID number replaced.

Ethics

The study was approved by the Uganda Virus Research Institute’s research and ethics committee, the Uganda National Council of Science and Technology and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine ethics committees (Ethics Ref: 7574)

Keywords

HIV prevention, fishing community, pilot trial, feasibility, cluster trial

Language of written material

English

Project title

Feasibility of conducting HIV combination prevention interventions in fishing communities in Uganda: a cluster randomised trial

Funder/Sponsor

This research was jointly funded by the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) under the MRC/DFID Concordat agreement.

Grant Number

MR/L004305/1

Additional Information

Correspondence related to the dataset are handled by Stephen Nash and Monica Kuteesa.

Data Creators

Forename Surname Faculty / Dept Institution Role
Monica O. Kuteesa Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health / Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit on AIDS; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Contact Person, project leader, data creator, data collector
Stephen Nash Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health / Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Data manager
Andrew Abaasa Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health / Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit on AIDS;   London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Data manager
Rebecca Nsubuga   MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit on AIDS Researcher
Rob Newton   MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit on AIDS Researcher
Janet Seeley Public Health & Policy / Global Health and Development MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit on AIDS;  London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Researcher
Helen Weiss Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health / Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Researcher
Anatoli Kamali Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health / Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology International AIDS Vaccine Initiative;   London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Supervisor

File Description

Filename Description File Type Access status Licence
hivcomb_dataset_tab.txt HIV Combination study dataset Tab-delimited ASCII text Open Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial (CC-BY-NC)
Codebook.html Codelist containing variable description for the dataset HTML Open Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY)
UserGuide.html This document HTML Open Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY)