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ID and Testing Via Friendship Networks

NCT00841360 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 535

Last updated 2017-02-28

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This is a pilot study with a cross-sectional research design to recruit Hispanic/Latina and African American adolescent and young adult women, aged 13-24 years to serve as index recruiters, who will in turn recruit members of her female friendship network, aged 13 years and older to undergo HIV screening. This approach seeks to identify new HIV infections in the target population.

Conditions

  • Asymptomatic HIV
  • HIV Infections

Interventions

OTHER

Index Recruiter

Participants agree to recruit at least two female friends from their friendship network to undergo HIV screening.

OTHER

Friendship Network Member

Participants are recruited by Index Recruiters to enroll in study and receive HIV screening and complete a questionnaire either on Facilitators of HIV Screening or Barriers to HIV Screening.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

    collaborator NIH

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Cherrie B Boyer, PhD · University of California, San Francisco; ATN

Eligibility

Min Age
13 Years
Max Age
24 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-01-31
Primary Completion
2010-06-30
Completion
2010-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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