- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT01256463
HIV Prevention for PLHIV: Evaluation of an Intervention Toolkit for HIV Care & Treatment Settings
HIV Prevention for People Living With HIV/AIDS: Evaluation of an Intervention Toolkit for HIV Care and Treatment Settings
The rapid scale-up of HIV care and treatment in resource-limited settings provides the opportunity to reach many HIV-positive individuals with prevention messages and interventions in care and treatment settings. However, HIV prevention is rarely incorporated into the routine care and treatment of people living with HIV, leaving missed opportunities to reach patients with critical interventions.
This study will evaluate an HIV prevention intervention package for health care settings in sub-Saharan Africa. The HIV prevention intervention will be delivered to HIV-seropositive patients in HIV care and treatment clinics during all routine visits. Health care providers (HCPs) will deliver HIV prevention messages on correct and consistent condom use, disclosure of serostatus, partner HIV testing, adherence and alcohol reduction. They will also assess and treat sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and provide basic contraceptives and safer pregnancy counseling.
Trained lay counselors (LCs) will deliver HIV prevention interventions in the clinics. LCs will be persons without medical training, many of whom will be PLHIV, who will be trained to provide HIV prevention counseling, promote HIV testing of partners and children (and provide HIV testing where allowed by national guidelines), and counsel HIV-positive patients on medication adherence and alcohol use.
The prevention intervention package will be evaluated in HIV clinics in three sub-Saharan African countries: Kenya, Namibia, and Tanzania. This project will be a longitudinal group-randomized trial with 9 intervention clinics (3 per country) and 9 comparison clinics (3 per country). Two hundred patients per clinic (total N = 3600) will be followed for 12 months. This evaluation will examine the effectiveness of the HIV prevention interventions delivered by HCPs and LCs on patient-level outcomes such as risky sexual behavior, disclosure of HIV status, partner HIV testing, alcohol use, HIV antiretroviral (ARV) medication adherence, STI treatment, pregnancies, and contraceptive use.
In addition to the patient outcomes, the acceptability of the interventions and materials, as well as the feasibility of integrating the interventions into HIV care and treatment settings, will be assessed.
Data will be collected via patient interviews, HCP and LC questionnaires, observations of HCP and LC patient visits, patient medical chart review, and review of clinic service data.
Study Overview
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- At least 18 years old
- HIV-positive patients receiving care at a project clinic and seen at the clinic at least twice prior to enrollment
- Sexually active within the past three months
- Planning to attend the clinic for at least 1 year
- Able to conduct interview in one of the following languages:
Kenya: English, Kiswahili Namibia: English, Oshiwambo, Damara-nama, Otjiherero, Afrikaans Tanzania: English, Kiswahili
- Able to provide informed consent to participate in the project
Exclusion Criteria:
- Younger than 18 years of age
- Not sexually active within the last three months
- Planning to move from the vicinity of the clinic within one year
- Not enrolled in the HIV clinic and/or have not been seen for at least two clinic visits
- Cannot provide informed consent
- Patients who are acutely ill or are determined by clinical staff to be too ill to participate
- Spouses or identified partners of participating patients
- Pregnant women and male partners of pregnant women, as family planning counseling and unintended pregnancy are some of the primary study outcomes
- Not able to complete interview in one of the languages in the inclusion criteria
- Participated in pilot study
Study Plan
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 |
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No Intervention: Comparison
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Experimental: HIV prevention intervention
The HIV prevention intervention will be delivered to HIV-seropositive patients in HIV care and treatment clinics during all routine visits.
Health care providers (including physicians, clinical officers, and nurses) will deliver HIV prevention messages on correct and consistent condom use, disclosure of serostatus, partner HIV testing, adherence and alcohol reduction during clinic visits.
Health care providers will also assess and treat sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and provide basic contraceptives and brief safer pregnancy counseling.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Time Frame |
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Unprotected vaginal and anal sex
Time Frame: Baseline
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Baseline
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Unprotected vaginal and anal sex
Time Frame: 6 month follow-up
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6 month follow-up
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Unprotected vaginal and anal sex
Time Frame: 12-month follow-up
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12-month follow-up
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Time Frame |
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Number of sex partners
Time Frame: Baseline
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Baseline
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Number of sex partners
Time Frame: 6 month follow-up
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6 month follow-up
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Number of sex partners
Time Frame: 12 month follow-up
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12 month follow-up
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Number of sex partners getting an HIV test
Time Frame: Baseline
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Baseline
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Number of sex partners getting an HIV test
Time Frame: 6 month follow-up
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6 month follow-up
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Number of sex partners getting an HIV test
Time Frame: 12 month follow-up
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12 month follow-up
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Disclosure of HIV status to sex partners
Time Frame: Baseline
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Baseline
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Disclosure of HIV status to sex partners
Time Frame: 6 month follow-up
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6 month follow-up
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Disclosure of HIV status to sex partners
Time Frame: 12-month follow-up
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12-month follow-up
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Alcohol use
Time Frame: Baseline
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Baseline
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Alcohol use
Time Frame: 6 month follow-up
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6 month follow-up
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Alcohol use
Time Frame: 12-month follow-up
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12-month follow-up
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Adherence to HIV antiretroviral medications
Time Frame: Baseline
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Baseline
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Adherence to HIV antiretroviral medications
Time Frame: 6 month follow-up
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6 month follow-up
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Adherence to HIV antiretroviral medications
Time Frame: 12-month follow-up
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12-month follow-up
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Unintended pregnancy or partner pregnancy
Time Frame: Baseline
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Baseline
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Unintended pregnancy or partner pregnancy
Time Frame: 6 month follow-up
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6 month follow-up
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Unintended pregnancy or partner pregnancy
Time Frame: 12-month follow-up
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12-month follow-up
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Provision of family planning counseling and services
Time Frame: Baseline
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Baseline
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Provision of family planning counseling and services
Time Frame: 6 month follow-up
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6 month follow-up
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Provision of family planning counseling and services
Time Frame: 12-month follow-up
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12-month follow-up
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Collaborators and Investigators
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Pamela Bachanas, PhD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Study Director: Daniel Kidder, PhD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Publications and helpful links
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start
Primary Completion (Actual)
Study Completion (Actual)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Estimate)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Estimate)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Other Study ID Numbers
- CDC-CGH-5540
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