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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to collect quantitative data related to developing and testing a couple-based intervention (CBI) for HIV-positive women's medication adherence in the region of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. The CBI, called START (Supporting Treatment for Anti-Retroviral Therapy) Together, will be a manualized intervention focused on women's ART adherence and enhancing the couple's communication and problem-solving behavior. The study focuses on implementation outcomes (feasibility, acceptability, and fidelity) and preliminary efficacy outcomes (women's ART adherence, men's engagement in HIV care, and the couple's relationship functioning), which will be compared to a control condition of referrals to usual HIV care.
Increased health education has the potential to facilitate better use of health care services and to promote early treatment, thus it can strengthen the health care system, and ultimately reduce morbidity and mortality. In this study, we will develop and test the effect of digital health messages related to HIV, Tuberculosis (TB) and Taenia solium cysticercosis/taeniosis (TSCT) (the intervention diseases) in Migoli and Izazi (the intervention villages), in Iringa, Tanzania (TZ). The intervention is planned as follows: A digital platform, providing the intervention villages with digital health messages related to the above-mentioned diseases, will be implemented in TZ in 2019. The platform will be accessible free of charge, through own devices and tablets based in the local Wi-Fi spots in the villages. In the first part of this project, the doctoral research fellow will participate in developing the digital health messages, together with experts from the medical and teaching environments in Tanzania, Norway, Germany and USA. The second part of the PhD-project consists of a cluster non-randomised controlled trial and semi-structured interviews in Tanzania. The digital health messages will be physically shown to the participants in the intervention group. The study is planned to investigate the knowledge related to the intervention diseases, before the intervention, immediately after exposure to the intervention, and at follow-up points throughout one year, after the intervention has been implemented. Semi-structured interviews with clients (users of the intervention) from each of the intervention villages are included, to explore the perception and reception of the intervention. The baseline study and the immediate after survey will take place in Tanzania in Q1 2019, while the other follow-up studies and interviews (3, 6 and 12 months after baseline) will be undertaken throughout one year.
In this study the investigators will adapt and strengthen, test effectiveness, and explore implementation of conditional lottery incentive linkage strategies to engage men in HIV care and ART in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
The mLab App combines HIV prevention information with push notifications/reminders to complete HIV testing and an automated image processing feature to provide real-time feedback on home-based HIV test results. Theoretically-guided by the Health Information Technology Usability Evaluation Model (Health-ITUEM), the proposed project will refine and test a next-generation diagnostic intervention delivered on a mobile platform to improve HIV testing and linkage-to-care outcomes among youth living with and at-risk for HIV. Given the pervasiveness, low cost, and convenience of mobile technology, the investigators hope that the App can help achieve the goals of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy in the US by increasing the number of persons living with HIV who know their serostatus, decreasing HIV-related disparities, and ultimately reducing the risk of HIV transmission and acquisition.
Antiretroviral therapy is currently the only way to control HIV disease progression in HIV infected subjects and to prevent transmission. However a sustained virological control through antiretroviral therapy is requested for these objectives. There is currently 8-10% of patients who failed therapy for many reasons other than virological resistance including social unstability, psychiatric disorders, migrant status, drug or alcohol addictions. Because many of these vulnerabilities can be managed and patients helped for following adequately cares and treatments, study team designed the OPTICARE Program to help reduce impact of the patients' vulnerabilities. The OPTICARE study is designed as a prospective implementation interventional study which aims to improve retention in care among vulnerable HIV infected patients over 48 weeks. The OPTICARE program is a support program dedicated to patients either lost to follow up or in highly fraility situation that will offer an individualized care management to fill their gaps towards optimized care and control of viral replication. Our aim is, in patients virally failing in relation with poor adherence to care and treatment to test first part whether tracking proactively lost to follow up patients or detecting frail individuals at risk of lost to care is effective and secondly to evaluate the efficacy, the feasibility and the acceptability of an intervention tailored to each individual to get them to treatment success with viral suppression. In our context, a randomized approach would not be seen as ethical or possible in an environment where investigators need to evaluate such intervention as a pilot approach. Investigators therefore enrolled patients in a cohort population study OPTICARE program aim to actively identify vulnerable HIV+ population and promote optimal access to health care to this population using retention in care program in order to enable long term HIV infection control. The primary objective is to assess the feasability and the effectiveness of the OPTICARE program. The OPTICARE program aims to propose an individualized care to vulnerable HIV infected patients (UNAIDS/Second 90% goal) and to drive them to treatment success (UNAIDS/Third 90% goal) within a one-year period.
A total of 40 HIV infected patients will be randomly assigned into intervention or control group. Participants in the intervention group will use an smart phone application for two months. Participants will receive reminder notifications and use the app to take and send videos of themselves taking the pill(s), uploaded videos will be centrally reviewed by a study nurse . Control group participants will receive standard care. Antiretroviral Therapy adherence will be measured by self-report, pill count, and smart bottle as well as the App. Participants' perceptions of app using experience will be recorded via face to face interview.
This clinical trial seeks to determine if male-centered recruitment increases men's testing for HIV and whether or not individualized introduction to clinics increases male engagement in treatment for HIV. The study is being conducted in rural KwaZulu Natal.
This study will assess changes in the incidence and severity of drug interactions before and after switching antiretroviral therapy to bictegravir/emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide-based regimens in treatment experienced patients living with HIV infection.
Infection with HIV-1 continues to be a serious health threat throughout the world. Chronic exposure to combination anti-retroviral therapy identified anti-retroviral associated long-term toxicities. Hence, there is a need to prevent these co-morbidities. GSK3640254 is a next-generation HIV-1 Maturation Inhibitor (MI) which may be effective for HIV-1 infection. This study will evaluate the antiviral effect, safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics/ pharmacodynamics of GSK3640254 in HIV-1 infected treatment-naive adults. This study will consists of two parts; Part 1 and Part 2. Part 1 will evaluate two active doses of GSK3640254, 200 milligrams (mg) (Cohort 1) and 10 mg (Cohort 2) along with placebo to match GSK3640254 Mesylate salt. Part 2 will evaluate three active doses of GSK3640254. Dose level 1 of GSK3640254 that can provide at least 30 percent of the maximum effect (Cohort 1), dose level 2 of GSK3640254 that can provide at least 75 percent of the maximum effect (Cohort 2) and dose level 3 of GSK3640254 that can provide at least 90 percent of the maximum effect (Cohort 3). These doses are anticipated to be 5 mg, 40 mg and 100 mg respectively, but could be modified based on data obtained in Part 1. Subjects will also receive placebo to match GSK3640254 Mesylate salt in Part 2 of the study. All doses will be administered after a moderate fat meal. This study will consist of Screening period (up to 14 days), Treatment period (Day 1- Day 10), post-dose Follow-up (Day 11- Day 17) and final Follow-up (Day 18-24). A total of approximately 34 subjects will be enrolled, of which, 14 subjects will be randomized in Part 1 and 20 in Part 2 of the study. Six subjects will be enrolled in each of the active dose cohorts and 2 subjects will be enrolled in each of the placebo cohorts.
Background: HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus, which is the virus that causes AIDS. There is currently no licensed vaccine to prevent HIV infection. Researchers want to test a vaccine called Trimer 4571 for the first time. It was made at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and contains no HIV. The vaccine is mixed with a substance called alum and injected in the arm. Alum is included to boost the body's immune response to the vaccine. It has been used in licensed vaccines for over 60 years and has been found to be safe. Objectives: To see if the vaccine Trimer 4571 is safe, well-tolerated, and to study immune responses to it. Eligibility: Healthy adults ages 18-50 years Design: Participants were screened with a physical exam and blood tests. They agreed to not become pregnant and to avoid behavior that would put them at high-risk for HIV infection during the study. Participants had about 15 study visits over about 9 months. The first 6 participants received a low dose of the vaccine mixed with alum. Once the low dose was deemed safe, 10 new participants were allocated to receive a higher dose. All participants were randomly assigned to get the vaccine by injection in a muscle or under the skin. All participants received a total of 3 vaccine injections over 20 weeks. Each visit where participants received the vaccine lasted about 5 hours. Participants were watched after each injection. Participants who were able to get pregnant would have a pregnancy test before each injection. Participants received a thermometer and recorded their temperature and symptoms every day for 1 week after each injection. The injection site was checked for redness, swelling, or bruising. At follow-up visits, participants had blood drawn and checked for health changes or problems. Follow up visits lasted about 1-2 hours.