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Traditional Healer-initiated HIV Counseling and Testing in South Africa

NCT05079347 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 418

Last updated 2024-10-18

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Summary

The objective of this proposal is to conduct a pilot test of a program aimed at training traditional healers to conduct HIV testing and implementing HIV testing among people living in Bushbuckridge, South Africa.

Pilot Healer-initiated HIV testing uptake and linkage to prevention services. Trust in allopathic health care and HIV stigma will be measured among participants at study enrollment and at month seven.

Hypothesis: Healer-initiated HIV counseling and testing (HICT) will increase trust in allopathic health care and reduce HIV stigma.

Conditions

  • HIV Infection

Interventions

DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

HIV rapid test

Using a rapid test to assess a patient's HIV status

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

    collaborator NIH

  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Carolyn Audet, PhD · Vanderbilt University

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-07-22
Primary Completion
2023-09-01
Completion
2023-12-01

Countries

  • South Africa

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