Impact on Linkage to HIV Care With Point of Care CD4 Testing and Home-based HIV Testing in Kenya

NCT02515149 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 770

Last updated 2025-04-08

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Summary

Randomised Controlled Trial to Assess Accuracy, Feasibility, Acceptability, Cost Effectiveness and Impact of Point of Care CD4 Testing on HIV Diagnosis, Linkage to Care and Time to Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation among HIV Infected Patients in Rural Western Kenya.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

Point of care CD4 device (Alere PIMA)

for persons testing + with home-based HIV testing using Kenya's two rapid test algorithm, intervention arm participants received point of care CD4 testing followed by counseling on results which included their treatment eligibility

Sponsors & Collaborators

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-07-31
Primary Completion
2014-09-30
Completion
2014-12-31

Countries

  • Kenya

Study Locations

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Entities

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