Integrated Treatment and Prevention for People Who Inject Drugs

March 26, 2025 updated by: HIV Prevention Trials Network

Integrated Treatment and Prevention for People Who Inject Drugs: A Vanguard Study for a Network-based Randomized HIV Prevention Trial Comparing an Integrated Intervention Including Supported Antiretroviral Therapy to the Standard of Care

The purpose of this study is to determine the feasibility of a future trial that will assess whether an integrated intervention combining psychosocial counseling and supported referrals for antiretroviral therapy (ART) at any CD4 cell count and substance use treatment for HIV-infected people who inject drugs (PWID) will reduce HIV transmission to HIV-uninfected injection partners, as compared to routine care dictated by national guidelines for HIV-infected PWID.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

This is a multi-site, two-arm, randomized, vanguard study. Network units will consist of an HIV-infected index participant and his/her HIV-uninfected network injection partner(s). Network units will be randomized to the intervention or standard of care arms in a 1:3 ratio, stratified by site. To assess feasibility of the intervention, additional interviews will be conducted with study staff (systems navigators and counselors) and clinic-based stakeholders at each study site.

Approximately 500 Index participants and their partners will be enrolled.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

1281

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

      • Jakarta, Indonesia
        • CIPTO
      • Kiev, Ukraine
        • Ukrainian Institute on Public Health Policy
      • Hanoi, Vietnam
        • Pho Yen Health Center

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years to 45 years (Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

Index participants:

  • Age 18-45 years at the Screening visit (age verification procedures will be defined in the Study Specific Procedures [SSP] Manual)
  • Able to provide informed consent
  • Active injection drug user, defined as self-report of: a) injecting drugs approximately two or more times per week for the past three months, and b) ability to identify the anatomical location of the most recent injection site, as determined by study staff
  • Reports sharing needles/syringes or drug solutions at least once in the last month
  • HIV-infected based on a study-defined testing algorithm (defined in the SSP Manual)
  • Viral load ≥1,000 copies/mL at Screening
  • Willing and able to identify, recruit, and have enrolled at least one HIV-uninfected network injection partner who is eligible for study participation according to the criteria below
  • Have no plans to move outside the study area for at least one year after study enrollment
  • Willing to participate in intervention activities, including regular phone contact

HIV uninfected injection partners:

  • Age 18-45 years at the Screening visit (age verification procedures will be defined in the SSP Manual)
  • Able to provide informed consent
  • Active injection drug user, defined as: a) self-report of injecting drugs approximately two times per week for the past three months, and b) ability to identify the anatomical location of the most recent injection site, as determined by study staff
  • Confirmed injection partner, using referral identification cards, of index participant within the past 1 month
  • HIV-uninfected based on the study-defined testing algorithm* (defined in the Study SSP Manual)
  • Have no plans to move outside the study area for at least one year after study enrollment

Exclusion Criteria:

-

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Prevention
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Control
Standard of Care
Experimental: Integrated Intervention
Standard of care plus an integrated system of psychosocial counseling and systems navigation for HIV treatment and Substance Use treatment
systems navigation, psychosocial counseling

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
HIV incidence among network injection partners of index participants
Time Frame: 18 months
Number of HIV seroconversions to partners to control arm Index participants
18 months
enrollment and retention of HIV-infected PWID and their HIV-uninfected network injection partners
Time Frame: 18 months
Number of participants enrolled, and number of participants with a final study visit.
18 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
HIV incidence among network injection partners of index participants in the intervention arm
Time Frame: 18 months
Number of HIV seroconversions to partners of Intervention arm participants
18 months
Engagement in care for ART treatment services of control arm vs intervention
Time Frame: 18 months
Number of participants in both arms who report being in ART (case report forms) care, as well as testing stored plasma for HIV RNA suppression
18 months
Number of participants in either arm engaged in substance use treatment
Time Frame: 18 months
self reported on case report forms
18 months
size and stability of drug using networks
Time Frame: 18 months
self reported data via questionnaire of drug sharing habits and partners at each study visit
18 months
social harms and benefits
Time Frame: 18 months
self report via questionnaire
18 months
phylogenetics to describe HIV transmission dynamics
Time Frame: 18 months
stored plasma samples from those persons who are HIV positive and those who become HIV positive during the study
18 months

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Collaborators

Investigators

  • Study Chair: William Miller, MD, Ohio State University

Publications and helpful links

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Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

February 4, 2015

Primary Completion (Actual)

June 16, 2017

Study Completion (Actual)

June 30, 2018

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

October 12, 2016

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

October 13, 2016

First Posted (Estimated)

October 17, 2016

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

April 1, 2025

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 26, 2025

Last Verified

March 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • HPTN 074
  • UM1AI068619 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

IPD Plan Description

no individual data will be shared

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