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Overcoming Barriers to HIV/AIDS Care and ART Initiation

NCT02718456 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 315

Last updated 2019-03-13

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The study will evaluate interventions to improve engagement in HIV care following HIV diagnosis through a voluntary counseling and testing program. The specific aims are to (1) determine if a VCT-based intervention of CD4 count testing, alone or in combination with peer counseling, improves linkage to HIV/AIDS care; (2) assess the impact of the intervention on ART initiation. The study will recruit 450 HIV-positive individuals from VCTs and randomize a third to standard counseling and referral, a third to receive CD4 testing at the VCT with results return by phone after 1 weeks, and a third to receive the same CD4 testing combined with peer counseling. These combined investigations will create a comprehensive understanding of obstacles to appropriate HIV/AIDS care and result in new interventions to achieve measurable outcomes in applied settings.

Conditions

  • Engagement in HIV Care

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Expedited CD4 testing

BEHAVIORAL

Supplemental peer counseling

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Brandon L Guthrie, PhD · University of Washington

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-08-31
Primary Completion
2017-12-22
Completion
2017-12-22

Countries

  • Kenya

Study Locations

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