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The Use of Peer Referral Incentives to Increase Demand for Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in Zambia

NCT02012816 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 725

Last updated 2016-06-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) and researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) have partnered to pilot an peer-referral incentive program to increase voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) uptake in Zambia. The program allows each man coming for circumcision to refer up to 5 uncircumcised men in their social network for VMMC services and receive a monetary reward for each successful referral. The peer-referral program offers several advantages over traditional demand-creation approaches that rely on employing mobilizers or community health workers (CHWs). The amount of the monetary incentive will be analogous to the amount of incentive that CHWs might receive for comparable effort, making the program suitable for large-scale expansion. The effect of the peer-referral program on uptake of VMMC services will be evaluated using a rigorous methodology proposed by UNC researchers.

Conditions

  • HIV Infection

Interventions

OTHER

Peer-referral incentive program to increase VMMC uptake

The proposed intervention will allow men coming for male circumcision in randomly selected intervention clinics to refer up to 5 uncircumcised men in their social network and receive a monetary reward for each referred man who undergoes male circumcision. Men who come for circumcision will each be given 5 referral vouchers that they can then provide to uncircumcised men in their social network who may be interested in undergoing VMMC. If these uncircumcised men come to the CIDRZ VMMC clinics and undergo the circumcision procedure, they can present the referral voucher to clinic staff who will then retain the voucher until the man who made the referral comes to collect his incentive payment.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Harsha Thirumurthy, MD · UNC at Chapel Hill

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
49 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-06-30
Primary Completion
2015-09-30
Completion
2015-11-30

Countries

  • Zambia

Study Locations

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