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HIV Self-testing for Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

N/A

Waitlist Available

Led By Carmen Logie, PhD

Research Sponsored by University of Toronto

Eligibility Criteria Checklist

Specific guidelines that determine who can or cannot participate in a clinical trial

Must have

Be younger than 65 years old

Timeline

Screening 3 weeks

Treatment Varies

Follow Up time 1 (month 0), time 2 (month 3)

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Study Summary

This trial is testing whether or not a comic book can help improve linkage to care with HIVST for adolescents and young people in Bidi Bidi who have been displaced or are refugees.

Eligible Conditions

Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP)
HIV/AIDS

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks3 visits

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~ time 1 (month 0), time 2 (month 3)

Screening ~ 3 weeks

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~time 1 (month 0), time 2 (month 3)

This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and time 1 (month 0), time 2 (month 3) for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.

Primary outcome measures

Changes in HIV testing frequency

HIV status knowledge

Secondary outcome measures

Adolescent sexual and reproductive health stigma

Change in HIV knowledge

Change in HIV-related stigma

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Trial Design

4Treatment groups

Experimental Treatment

Active Control

Group I: HIV self-testing + educational comic bookExperimental Treatment2 Interventions

At the first visit participants will receive a HIVST kit and a detailed description of how to use the HIVST kits, pictorial and written guide for HIVST kits, in addition to contact information for confirmatory testing and linkage to care at local clinics. Participants will also receive an educational comic book focused on HIV testing information and decision making that was developed with qualitative data collected from an earlier study phase. PNs will meet with small groups of participants to read through and discuss the comic book together.

Group II: Standard of CareActive Control1 Intervention

PNs will provide information about HIV testing, care and support services at local clinics.

Group III: HIV self-testingActive Control1 Intervention

Group IV: Educational comic bookActive Control1 Intervention

Participants will receive an educational comic book focused on HIV testing information and decision making that was developed with qualitative data collected from an earlier study phase. PNs will meet with small groups of participants to read through and discuss the comic book together.

Treatment

First Studied

Drug Approval Stage

How many patients have taken this drug

HIV Self-testing

2016

N/A

~200

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