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​Funders: Wellcome Trust through the Centre for Future Health (CFH) at the University of York; UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) through the Global Challenges Research Fund.

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Our team, led by Dr Noreen Mdege, is carrying out funded and unfunded research aimed at developing and evaluating novel smoking cessation interventions that can achieve long-term abstinence among PLWH who smoke, and are scalable within routine HIV care.

 

Impact:

This work contributed to:

• The WHO’s knowledge summary on tobacco and HIV.

• The WHO’s recommendation that tobacco control should be integrated into HIV programmes.

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Research Capacity Development

• One early-career researcher was supported to get their first lead-author publication and successfully enrolled in a PhD programme.

• One early-career researcher at the University of York leveraged our established collaborative partnerships in Uganda to gather preliminary qualitative data for their Wellcome University Award in Humanities and Social Science application.