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Effectiveness of Inpatient Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) in Uganda

NCT00972192 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 500

Last updated 2009-09-04

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study compared the effectiveness of inpatient routine VCT to referral for post-discharge VCT in terms of the number of new HIV infections identified, linkage to care for HIV infected individuals and reduction in HIV risk behavior.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Inpatient HIV testing

Participants who were randomized to the intervention group received free HIV testing and their results before they were discharged from the hospital.

BEHAVIORAL

Outpatient HIV testing

Participants randomised to the control arm received referral for testing post-discharge

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Moses Kamya, MBCHB · Makerere University School of Medicine

  • David Bangsberg, MD · University of California, San Francisco

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2004-02-29
Primary Completion
2008-03-31
Completion
2008-03-31

Countries

  • Uganda

Study Locations

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