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Engaging Informal Health Care Providers on Case Detection and Treatment Initiation Rates for TB and HIV in Rural Malawi (Triage Plus)

NCT02127983 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 200000

Last updated 2014-05-01

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The intervention consisted of training non-paid informal healthcare providers (such as store-keepers) in TB and HIV disease recognition, sputum specimen collection, referral to the public health system, and raising community awareness. Front line public health personnel and community leaders were sensitised to support the intervention.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Early intervention

Training non-paid informal healthcare providers (such as store-keepers) in TB and HIV disease recognition, sputum specimen collection, referral to the public health system, and raising community awareness. Front line public health personnel and community leaders were sensitised to support the intervention

BEHAVIORAL

Delayed intervention

Delayed intervention arm, engaging informal providers Received the intervention after one year

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Research for Equity And Community Health REACH Trust

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Ministry of Health and Population, Malawi

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • LHL International Tuberculosis Foundation

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of Warwick

    collaborator OTHER

  • Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Rachael Thomson, MSc · LSTM

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-01-31
Primary Completion
2011-12-31
Completion
2012-12-31

Countries

  • Malawi

Study Locations

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Entities

Diseases

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