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Enhancing Partner Services Among Men Who Have Sex With Men Living With HIV

NCT04971967 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 121

Last updated 2023-06-09

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Summary

Individuals will participate in a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) that implements and evaluates the feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of crowdsourced partner services (PS) or conventional PS among Chinese men who have sex with men (MSM) living with HIV.

The pilot RCT will include 120 newly identified MSM HIV cases who were born biologically male, aged 18 years old or older, newly identified as HIV positive, had oral or anal sex with a man, had at least one sexual partner in the previous 6 months and live in Guangzhou. Participants will undergo a series of computer-based interviews (baseline and 2 months after enrollment) and will be randomly assigned into two groups in 2:1 ratio (intervention: control) and receive crowdsourced PS and conventional PS, respectively.

Conditions

  • Contact Tracing

Interventions

COMBINATION_PRODUCT

Crowdsourced partner services intervention

The intervention includes the provision of provider referral and dual referral services, crowdsourced materials such as postcards and an HTML aiming to promote PS, as well as free take-home HIV self-testing kits.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Weiming Tang, Ph.D · University of North Carolina Project-China

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
99 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-08-01
Primary Completion
2022-08-15
Completion
2022-09-30

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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