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The primary purpose of this research is to assess the benefit of an "unaware intervention package" for identifying high risk persons who are unaware of their HIV infection status. This intervention package includes screening for acute HIV infection, contract sexual partner referral, and peer referral.


Clinical Trial Description

This two-arm randomized study will evaluate an "unaware intervention package" among HIV-infected persons attending Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) clinics in Lilongwe, Malawi. The package includes detection of Acute HIV Infection (AHI), contract partner notification, and social contact referral to find persons unaware of their HIV infection. The package will be compared to the current standard of care, passive partner notification, as the base case. Participants will be randomized to receive the intervention package - classified as the "active arm" of the study. The study will characterize the HIV stage (acute, recent, chronic) of the index participants and their sexual partners and social contacts, and use the HIV staging combined with sexual behavior data, phylogenetic analyses, and egocentric sexual/social network assessments to assess the potential impact of the intervention on ongoing transmission. We will obtain the distributions of numerous transmission-related attributes among the recruited contacts/partners of STI clinic patients, including contacts' and partners' HIV infection status and stage, HIV diagnosis/care/treatment status, STI status, and sexual behaviors. This information will allow us to model testing, linkage, and treatment interventions targeted to the traced partners and/or social contacts of acute, recent, and/or chronic index cases identified in STI clinics. We can then assess and compare the predicted effects on population-level HIV incidence of interventions attached to each recruitment method (tracing partners, social contacts, or both) and index case and contact disease stage (acute, recent, and/or chronic). ;


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NCT number NCT02467439
Study type Interventional
Source University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Status Completed
Phase N/A
Start date June 2015
Completion date May 2, 2019

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