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Peer Led Outreach to Engage Male Partners of Pregnant Women in Uganda (Okutuuka Study)

NCT05388084 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 150

Last updated 2023-11-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

It is critical to evaluate strategies that leverage women's engagement in antenatal care to increase male partner testing while alleviating the burden on pregnant women to encourage their male partners to HIV test. A peer-delivered status-neutral approach to male partners of pregnant women may be an innovative strategy to overcome barriers to men's reluctance to test for HIV and initiate HIV prevention or treatment services. For pregnant women living with HIV, partner testing and disclosure could facilitate women's continuation of ART post-partum, and for HIV-negative women at risk of HIV acquisition, this could facilitate women's initiation of PrEP during pregnancy. Thus, multiple public health goals could be achieved through increasing the proportion of men who know their HIV status.

Conditions

  • Engagement, Patient
  • Male Peer Recruitment
  • HIV Testing
  • Linkage to Care

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Male peer engagement

Male partners of women randomized to the intervention arm will receive a phone call from the male peer to encourage them to test for HIV at the clinic. Male peer fathers will offer to meet men at the clinic and guide them through the process of HIV testing. Men who are not willing/able to attend the clinic for HIV testing will be offered testing in a private and confidential location in the community; the peer male counselor meet men and offer to assist them through the process of using and interpreting an oral HIVST. Men who are not interested in testing with the peer father will be offered the HIVST kit to take home. Peer fathers will obtain men's consent to participate in the study.

BEHAVIORAL

SOC and delayed intervention

Females receive standard of care invitation letter to provide to their partner for fast-track HIV testing and male peer father phone calls after a 3 month delay.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Connie Celum, MD, MPH · University of Washington

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
14 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-05-20
Primary Completion
2023-05-31
Completion
2023-07-15

Countries

  • Uganda

Study Locations

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