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Quit4Life+ is a partnership between the Center for Tobacco Control in Africa at the Makerere University School of Public Health, University of Zambia, University of Maryland School of Public Health, the Keck School of Medicine of USC, and the RAND Corporation, with technical support from the World Health Organization. The study is funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) under Project Number 7U01CA261624-05 through NCI's funding initiative to reduce tobacco use among people living with HIV in low- and middle-income countries.

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The project brings together researchers, clinicians, public health practitioners, and health system partners to develop, test, and strengthen approaches to tobacco cessation for people living with HIV. In addition to evaluating smoking cessation interventions, Quit4Life+ is designed to generate practical knowledge about how these services can be integrated into routine care and sustained within real-world health systems.

Collaboration and capacity building are central to the project. Quit4Life+ has created opportunities for investigators and research teams across partner institutions to build expertise in tobacco control, HIV, implementation science, and intervention research, while strengthening relationships that can support future locally led research.

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Learn more about the people and places behind Quit4Life+, the evolution of the project, and the next generation of investigators through our Team, Sites, Timeline, and Future PIs pages.