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The Impact of VCT and Condom Distribution as HIV Prevention Strategies Among Youth in Kenya

NCT03868644 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 10646

Last updated 2020-01-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The vast majority of new HIV infections occur in sub-Saharan Africa, where nearly 2 million people become infected with HIV/AIDS every year. Forty-five percent of these new HIV infections occur among people under 25 years old, and nearly all of them are due to unprotected sex. Ensuring the adoption of safer sexual behavior among youth is critical to keeping the new generations free of HIV.

This research study aims to examine, through a large randomized controlled trial, the impact of two HIV prevention strategies among a youth population in Kenya: Voluntary Counseling and Testing for HIV (VCT), and condom distribution.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Voluntary Counseling and Testing for HIV (VCT)

Youth are offered VCT conducted onsite via mobile clinics in accordance with Kenya National HIV Testing Guidelines by certified VCT counselors trained by the National AIDS and STI Control Program (NASCOP).

BEHAVIORAL

Condoms

Youth are offered 50 packages containing 3 condoms each of Trust brand condoms free of charge.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Innovations for Poverty Action

    collaborator OTHER

  • Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Esther Duflo · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Pascaline Dupas · Stanford University

  • Vandana Sharma · Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-02-01
Primary Completion
2014-07-01
Completion
2014-07-01

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