Prevention for Positives: An RCT Among Vietnamese HIV-positive IDU

NCT01689545 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2175

Last updated 2014-06-05

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a combined individual and structural level stigma reduction intervention is effective in reducing high risk injecting and sexual behaviors among HIV positive injecting drug users.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Individual level

Index participants will participate in standard HIV VCT supplemented with 2 posttest counseling sessions, followed by 2 post-test skill-building support groups for HIV positive IDUs.

BEHAVIORAL

Structural level

Community members will participate in 2 community-based HIV and IDU stigma videos combined with a series of visits with community outreach workers.

BEHAVIORAL

Individual level standard of care

The education materials that are currently offered in Thai Nguyen will be delivered didactically by health workers on 1) the HIV situation in Vietnam; 2) consequences of drug use; 3) routes of HIV transmission; and 4) options for drug treatment.

BEHAVIORAL

Structural level standard of care

Posters and billboards on HIV/AIDS transmission, leaflets on HIV/AIDS transmission available in health station, 15-minute monthly public broadcasts (via the village loudspeaker) on the consequences of HIV/AIDS and the number of HIV cases in the country and province will be delivered in communities.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Vivian F Go, PhD · Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-12-31
Primary Completion
2013-04-30
Completion
2013-04-30

Countries

  • Vietnam

Study Locations

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Diseases

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