Nabunya (left) and Cavazos-RehgProscovia Nabunya, an adjunct prof astatine the Brown School and co-director of the International Center for Child Health and Development (ICHAD); and Patricia Cavazos-Rehg, a prof of psychiatry astatine the School of Medicine, some astatine Washington University successful St. Louis, person received a five-year $1.2 cardinal probe assistance from the National Institute of Mental Health, portion of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to code slump among younker surviving with HIV successful Uganda.
The project, titled Suubi-Mhealth (suubi means anticipation successful the Luganda language), volition make a mobile wellness involution for usage by Ugandan younker who person some HIV and depression, taking into relationship their unsocial needs. The halfway of the Suubi-Mhealth involution volition beryllium based connected cognitive-behavioral therapy that has been recovered to amended slump and attraction adherence among individuals with HIV.
This survey builds connected aviator backing from the university’s McDonnell International Scholars Academy Global Incubator Seed Grant Program to Nabunya and Cavazos-Rehg, successful collaboration with Makerere University successful Uganda, a McDonnell Academy partner.
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