Optimizing Tobacco Cessation Interventions for People with HIV: Implementation Strategies, Approaches, and Methods September 14-15, 2026 National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Purpose: This comprehensive three-day program trained clinical staff of the Quit4Lfife+ study sites in both clinical knowledge (TB, HIV, adherence, tobacco, and alcohol) and counseling skills (brief advice and motivational interviewing) in preparation to provide tobacco cessation support. Content: The manual opens with foundational clinical content related to tobacco cessation support among people living with HIV (PLWH) and key terminology, such as distinguishing adherence (f

Purpose: The training's purpose is to teach clinicians about the medications available to help patients quit tobacco — how they work, how to select and dose them based on a patient's level of nicotine dependence, and how to manage side effects, combination regimens, and relapse. It's meant to move providers beyond behavioral counseling alone into the pharmacologic side of treatment. Content: The training opens by introducing the two broad categories of tobacco cessation medic

Purpose: The training is designed to build research capacity in dissemination and implementation science, specifically as it applies to cancer prevention and care in HIV clinical settings in Uganda and Zambia. The training's goals are to help participants understand the foundations of implementation science, recognize its significance for public health, become familiar with implementation frameworks and terminology, and be able to evaluate evidence-based interventions, strate

Purpose: The training aims to equip health care workers to deliver very short, opportunistic interventions that help tobacco-using patients understand the risks of continued use and the benefits of quitting, and to motivate a quit attempt. It also trains clinicians to recognize when a patient should be referred to more intensive cessation support, such as quitlines or specialist clinics. The underlying rationale is that brief advice—even just a few minutes long—is feasible wi

Musasizi E, Guwatudde D, Rutebemberwa R, Arinaitwe J, Kusolo R, Atuyambe L, Guy K, Wipfli H IN PRINT AT THE JOURNAL OF TOBACCO PREVENTION AND CESSATION

Research Seminar, Makerere University School of Public Health, August 24, 2026 Ezekiel Musasizi

Guy K, Tsui J, Musasizi E , Kusolo R, Mukupa M, Arinaitwe J, Goma F, Atuyambe L, Guwatudde D, Phiri M, Zyambo C, Wipfli H. (2026). Barriers and facilitators to delivering tobacco cessation interventions at HIV care clinics in Sub-Saharan Africa: Qualitative application of the consolidated framework for implementation research. Tobacco prevention & cessation, 12, 10.18332/tpc/221806. LINK TO FULL PUBLICATION ABSTRACT Introduction: Tobacco use among people living with HIV (PLWH

2025 World Conference on Tobacco Control, Dublin, Ireland, June 2025 Panel Discussion

Association of Pacific Rim Universities, Bangkok, Thailand. December, 2024. Kyra Guy LINK to paper.

Consortium of Universities for Global Health. Washington, D.C, April 2026. Kyra Guy LINK to Poster

Musasizi, E., Wipfli, H., Arinaitwe, J., Atuyambe, L., Guy, K., Kusolo, R., Rutebemberwa, E., & Guwatudde, D. (2025). Multilevel drivers of tobacco use among people living with HIV in West Nile and Karamoja Regions in Uganda: a mixed-methods study. BMC public health, 25(1), 3622. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-24938-9 LINK TO FULL PUBLICATION ABSTRACT Objectives: Extended life expectancy due to treatment improvements has increased the diagnosis of cancer among people livi

Wipfli, H., Arinaitwe, J., Goma, F., Atuyambe, L., Guwatudde, D., Phiri, M. M., Rutebemberwa, E., Wabwire-Mangen, F., Zulu, R., Zyambo, C., Guy, K., Kusolo, R., Mukupa, M., Musasizi, E., & Tucker, J. S. (2025). Usability and cultural adaptation of a text message-based tobacco cessation intervention for people living with HIV in Uganda and Zambia. Addiction science & clinical practice, 20(1), 55. LINK TO FULL PUBLICATION ABSTRACT Background: Text messaging-based interventions

2nd African Conference on Tobacco Control, November, 2024 Ezekiel Musasizi

2nd African Conference on Tobacco Control, Accra, Ghana, November 2024 Jim Arinaitwe

Wipfli, H., Arinaitwe, J., Goma, F., Atuyambe, L., Guwatudde, D., Phiri, M. M., Rutebemberwa, E., Wabwire-Mangen, F., Zulu, R., Zyambo, C., Guy, K., Kusolo, R., Mukupa, M., Musasizi, E., & Tucker, J. S. (2024). A phone-based tobacco use cessation program for people living with HIV in Uganda and Zambia: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Addiction science & clinical practice, 19(1), 6. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13722-024-00438-w LINK TO FULL PUBLICATION ABSTRACT

Musasizi, E., Wipfli, H., Arinaitwe, J., Atuyambe, L., Guy, K., Kusolo, R., Rutebemberwa, E., & Guwatudde, D. (2025). Multilevel drivers of tobacco use among people living with HIV in West Nile and Karamoja Regions in Uganda: a mixed-methods study. BMC public health, 25(1), 3622. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-24938-9. LINK TO FULL PUBLICATION ABSTRACT Background: Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and short messaging service (SMS)-based tobacco cessation interventions ha

Society for Research on Tobacco and Nicotine, San Antonio, March 2023 Heather Wipfli