List of works by Fred M Ssewamala

"There is no other option; we have to feed our families…who else would do it?": The financial lives of women engaging in sex work in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

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A combination intervention addressing sexual risk-taking behaviors among vulnerable women in Uganda: study protocol for a cluster randomized clinical trial

scientific article published on 17 August 2019

A novel economic intervention to reduce HIV risks among school-going AIDS orphans in rural Uganda

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Access and utilization of financial services among poor HIV-impacted children and families in Uganda

scientific article published on 29 December 2019

Anzansi family program: a study protocol for a combination intervention addressing developmental and health outcomes for adolescent girls at risk of unaccompanied migration

scientific article published on 07 December 2020

Applying a Family-Level Economic Strengthening Intervention to Improve Education and Health-Related Outcomes of School-Going AIDS-Orphaned Children: Lessons from a Randomized Experiment in Southern Uganda

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Assessing the Association Between Depression and Savings for Kenyan Youth Using a Validated Child Depression Inventory Measure

scientific article published in January 2018

Asset ownership and health and mental health functioning among AIDS-orphaned adolescents: findings from a randomized clinical trial in rural Uganda

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Assets and Educational Outcomes: Child Development Accounts (CDAs) for Orphaned Children in Uganda

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Cancer in Youth Living With HIV (YLWHIV): A Narrative Review of the Access to Oncological Services Among YLWHIV and the Role of Economic Strengthening in Child Health

scientific article published on 14 August 2020

Child development accounts (CDAs): An asset-building strategy to empower girls in Uganda

scientific article published on 17 March 2014

Correlates of depression among caregivers of children affected by HIV/AIDS in Uganda: findings from the Suubi-Maka family study

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Cost-Effectiveness of a Savings-Led Economic Empowerment Intervention for AIDS-Affected Adolescents in Uganda: Implications for Scale-up in Low-Resource Communities

scientific article published in January 2018

Do Savings Mediate Changes in Adolescents' Future Orientation and Health-Related Outcomes? Findings From Randomized Experiment in Uganda

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Does Economic Strengthening Improve Viral Suppression Among Adolescents Living with HIV? Results From a Cluster Randomized Trial in Uganda

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Effect of economic assets on sexual risk-taking intentions among orphaned adolescents in Uganda.

scientific article published on 14 January 2010

Effect of savings-led economic empowerment on HIV preventive practices among orphaned adolescents in rural Uganda: results from the Suubi-Maka randomized experiment

scientific article published on 7 November 2015

Effects of Financial Incentives on Saving Outcomes and Material Well-Being: Evidence From a Randomized Controlled Trial in Uganda

scientific article published on 29 May 2018

Effects of a Social Empowerment Intervention on Economic Vulnerability for Adolescent Refugee Girls in Ethiopia

scientific article published in January 2018

Efficacy of a savings-led microfinance intervention to reduce sexual risk for HIV among women engaged in sex work: a randomized clinical trial

scientific article published on 20 January 2015

Equity in adherence to antiretroviral therapy among economically vulnerable adolescents living with HIV in Uganda

scientific article published on January 2016

Evaluation of a savings-led family-based economic empowerment intervention for AIDS-affected adolescents in Uganda: A four-year follow-up on efficacy and cost-effectiveness

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Examining the nonkin support networks of orphaned adolescents participating in a family-based economic-strengthening intervention in Uganda

scientific article published on 05 November 2018

Examining the organizational factors that affect health workers' attendance: Findings from southwestern Uganda.

scientific article published in February 2019

Examining the relationship of social support and family cohesion on ART adherence among HIV-positive adolescents in southern Uganda: baseline findings

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Extended families and perceived caregiver support to AIDS orphans in Rakai district of Uganda

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Factors Associated With HIV Disclosure and HIV-Related Stigma Among Adolescents Living With HIV in Southwestern Uganda

scientific article published on 31 July 2020

Family Economic Strengthening and Parenting Stress Among Caregivers of AIDS-Orphaned Children: Results from a Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial in Uganda

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Family economic empowerment and mental health among AIDS-affected children living in AIDS-impacted communities: evidence from a randomised evaluation in southwestern Uganda

scientific article published on March 2013

Family economic strengthening and mental health functioning of caregivers for AIDS-affected children in rural Uganda.

scientific article published in January 2014

Family support as a mediator of change in sexual risk-taking attitudes among orphaned adolescents in rural Uganda

scientific article published on 27 August 2011

Feasibility of Assessing Economic and Sexual Risk Behaviors Using Text Message Surveys in African-American Young Adults Experiencing Homelessness and Unemployment: Single-Group Study

scientific article published on 17 July 2020

Financial and Behavioral Economic Factors Associated With HIV Testing In AIDS-Affected Adolescents in Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Analysis

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

From "4Rs and 2Ss" to "Amaka Amasanyufu" (Happy Families): Adapting a U.S.-based Evidence-Based Intervention to the Uganda Context

scientific article published on 06 February 2020

Gender and the effects of an economic empowerment program on attitudes toward sexual risk-taking among AIDS-orphaned adolescent youth in Uganda

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Gender, HIV knowledge and prevention attitudes among adolescents living with HIV participating in an economic empowerment intervention in Uganda

scientific article published on 10 November 2020

Global burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors for young people's health during 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.

scientific article published on 9 May 2016

Imagining the future: Community perceptions of a family-based economic empowerment intervention for AIDS-orphaned adolescents in Uganda

scientific article published on 21 June 2012

Implementation science in global health settings: Collaborating with governmental & community partners in Uganda

scientific article published on 27 September 2019

Implementing combined WHO mhGAP and adapted group interpersonal psychotherapy to address depression and mental health needs of pregnant adolescents in Kenyan primary health care settings (INSPIRE): a study protocol for pilot feasibility trial of the

scientific article published on 22 September 2020

Improving antiretroviral therapy adherence in resource-limited settings at scale: a discussion of interventions and recommendations

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Increasing Opportunities for Inner-City Youth: The Feasibility of an Economic Empowerment Model in East Harlem and the South Bronx, New York

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Informing health choices in low-resource settings

scientific article published on 19 May 2017

Integrating A Mentorship Component in Programming for Care and Support of AIDS-Orphaned and Vulnerable Children: Lessons from the Suubi and Bridges Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Integrating Children's Savings Accounts in the Care and Support of Orphaned Adolescents in Rural Uganda

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Intimate Partner Violence and Mental Health: Sex-Disaggregated Associations Among Adolescents and Young Adults in Uganda

scientific article published on 09 July 2020

Is it time to RE-AIM? A systematic review of economic empowerment as HIV prevention intervention for adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa using the RE-AIM framework

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

Lessons learned from using respondent-driven sampling (RDS) to assess sexual risk behaviors among Kenyan young adults living in urban slum settlements: A process evaluation

scientific article published on 10 April 2020

Matched Child Savings Accounts in Low-Resource Communities: Who Saves?

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Microenterprise Intervention to Reduce Sexual Risk Behaviors and Increase Employment and HIV Preventive Practices Among Economically-Vulnerable African-American Young Adults (EMERGE): A Feasibility Randomized Clinical Trial

scientific article published on 03 June 2020

Microenterprise intervention to reduce sexual risk behaviors and increase employment and HIV preventive practices in economically-vulnerable African-American young adults (EMERGE): protocol for a feasibility randomized clinical trial

scientific article published on 17 July 2019

Optimizing the 'demographic dividend' in young developing countries: The role of contractual savings and insurance for financing education

scientific article published in July 2015

Peer mentorship program on HIV/AIDS knowledge, beliefs, and prevention attitudes among orphaned adolescents: an evidence based practice

scientific article published on October 2015

Perceived social support and psychological wellbeing of children orphaned by HIV/AIDS in Southwestern Uganda

scientific article published on 25 June 2019

Poor Families Striving to Save in Matched Children's Savings Accounts: Findings from a Randomized Experimental Design in Uganda

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Poverty Reduction and Family Functioning: Results from an Experimental Study in Sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published in 2024

Poverty, economic strengthening, and mental health among AIDS orphaned children in Uganda: Mediation model in a randomized clinical trial

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Prevalence and correlates of depressive symptoms among high school adolescent girls in southern Uganda

scientific article published on 25 November 2020

Prevalence of behavioral disorders and attention deficit/hyperactive disorder among school going children in Southwestern Uganda

scientific article published on 03 April 2019

Reforming child institutional care in the Post-Soviet bloc: The potential role of family-based empowerment strategies

Relationship Between Family Economic Resources, Psychosocial Well-being, and Educational Preferences of AIDS-Orphaned Children in Southern Uganda: Baseline Findings

scientific article published on June 2015

Social Capital, Savings, and Educational Performance of Orphaned Adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Social and Economic Equity and Family Cohesion as Potential Protective Factors from Depression Among Adolescents Living with HIV in Uganda

scientific article published on 24 February 2020

Social support and school outcomes of adolescents orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS living in South Western Uganda

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Strengthening Universal Primary Education in Uganda: The potential role of an asset-based development policy

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Strengthening mental health and research training in Sub-Saharan Africa (SMART Africa): Uganda study protocol

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Suubi+Adherence study protocol: A family economic empowerment intervention addressing HIV treatment adherence for perinatally infected adolescents

scientific article published on 20 October 2019

Suubi4Cancer: A protocol for an innovative combination intervention to improve access to pediatric cancer services and treatment adherence among children living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Suubi4Her: a study protocol to examine the impact and cost associated with a combination intervention to prevent HIV risk behavior and improve mental health functioning among adolescent girls in Uganda.

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Testing the Financial Capability Framework: Findings from YouthSave-Impact Study Kenya

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The Effects of Parental Loss on the Psychosocial Wellbeing of AIDS-Orphaned Children Living in AIDS-Impacted Communities: Does Gender Matter?

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The Impact of a Family-Based Economic Intervention on the Mental Health of HIV-Infected Adolescents in Uganda: Results From Suubi + Adherence

scientific article published on 24 September 2020

The NIMH global mental health research community and COVID-19

scientific article published on 21 August 2020

The Post-intervention Impact of Amaka Amasanyufu on Behavioral and Mental Health Functioning of Children and Adolescents in Low-Resource Communities in Uganda: Analysis of a Cluster-Randomized Trial From the SMART Africa-Uganda Study (2016–2022)

scientific article published in 2023

The Power of Money: Reporting on the Efficacy of Economic Strengthening Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa

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The impact of a comprehensive microfinance intervention on depression levels of AIDS-orphaned children in Uganda

scientific article published on 26 October 2011

The impact of discomfort with HIV status and hopelessness on depressive symptoms among adolescents living with HIV in Uganda

scientific article published on 18 June 2020

The long-term effects of a family based economic empowerment intervention (Suubi+Adherence) on suppression of HIV viral loads among adolescents living with HIV in southern Uganda: Findings from 5-year cluster randomized trial

scientific article published on 10 February 2020

The potential of asset-based development strategies for poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa

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The role of family factors in antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence self-efficacy among HIV-infected adolescents in southern Uganda

scientific article published on 17 March 2020

The role of family financial socialization and financial management skills on youth saving behavior

scientific article published on 16 June 2017

Understanding female migrant child labor within a cumulative risk framework: The case for combined interventions in Ghana

scientific article published on 30 July 2018

Utilizing a family-based economic strengthening intervention to improve mental health wellbeing among female adolescent orphans in Uganda

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What are the most effective early response strategies and interventions to assess and address the immediate needs of children outside of family care?

scientific article published on 22 October 2012

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