HIV Serosorting Clinical Trial
Official title:
Development of an HIV Self-testing Intervention to Reduce HIV Risks Among MSM: Taking the Guess Out of Seroguessing
Verified date | January 2020 |
Source | University of California, San Francisco |
Contact | n/a |
Is FDA regulated | No |
Health authority | |
Study type | Interventional |
This randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluates whether HIV self-testing (HIVST) facilitates sexual harm reduction and reduces HIV transmission among HIV-negative MSM in China.The intervention group will be offered HIVST kits plus harm reduction education, and followed 9 month, while the control group will receive harm reduction educational material only.
Status | Terminated |
Enrollment | 27 |
Est. completion date | May 21, 2018 |
Est. primary completion date | May 21, 2018 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | Male |
Age group | 18 Years and older |
Eligibility |
Inclusion Criteria: - age 18 years or older; - born male; - currently residing in Nanjing and planning to stay as a resident during the study period; - speaks either Mandarin or the local dialect; - confirmed HIV negative through HIV rapid testing; - have had condomless anal sex with a man in the past six months Exclusion Criteria: - |
Country | Name | City | State |
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China | Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention | Nanjing | Jiangsu |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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University of California, San Francisco | Jiangsu Provincial Center for Diseases Control and Prevention, China |
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Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Change in participants' HIV testing uptake | Change in proportion of participants being tested for HIV | Baseline and 9-month | |
Secondary | Change in partners' HIV testing uptake | Change in proportion of participants' partners who tested for HIV | Baseline and 9-month | |
Secondary | Questionnaire to assess change in awareness of partner's HIV status | Change in proportion of participants' who report that they are aware of their partners' HIV status | Baseline and 9-month | |
Secondary | Questionnaire to assess change in self-reported sexually transmitted infection (STI) symptoms | Change in proportion of participants who report symptoms of STIs | Baseline and 9-month | |
Secondary | Incident HIV infection | Baseline and 9-month |