Comparing a standard and tailored approach to scaling up an evidence-based intervention for antiretroviral therapy for people who inject drugs in Vietnam: study protocol for a cluster randomized hybrid type III trial

Nguyen, Minh X. B.; Chu, Anh V.; Powell, Byron J.; Tran, Ha V.; Nguyen, Long H.; Dao, An T. M.; Pham, Manh D.; Vo, Son H.; Bui, Ngoc H.; Dowdy, David W.; Latkin, Carl A.; Lancaster, Kathryn E.; Pence, Brian W.; Sripaipan, Teerada; Hoffman, Irving; Miller, William C.; Go, Vivian F.

doi:10.1186/s13012-020-01020-z

Comparing a standard and tailored approach to scaling up an evidence-based intervention for antiretroviral therapy for people who inject drugs in Vietnam: study protocol for a cluster randomized hybrid type III trial

Background People who inject drugs (PWID) bear a disproportionate burden of HIV infection and experience poor outcomes. A randomized trial demonstrated the efficacy of an integrated System Navigation and Psychosocial Counseling (SNaP) intervention in improving HIV outcomes, including antiretrovir…