Prevention Ambassadors: Intervention to Promote HIV Service Engagement in the Networks of SSP Clients
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An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Prevention Ambassadors, SSP Standard of Care.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: HIV. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Prevention Ambassadors: an HIV Self-testing Intervention to Promote HIV Service Engagement in the Networks of SSP Clients
Overview
HIV testing and service uptake are infrequent among people who use drugs (PWUD) in the United States. In partnership with a community-based syringe service program (SSP), this project will develop the SSP-based "Prevention Ambassadors" (PA) intervention to promote HIV testing and service uptake among PWUD via the secondary distribution (i.e., peer delivery) of HIV self-testing (HIVST) kits with local HIV service information and referrals to HIV service navigation in the social networks of SSP clients (i.e., PWUD). The PA intervention will then be piloted to assess its preliminary effects, acceptability, and feasibility among PWUD in the Ending the HIV Epidemic priority jurisdiction of Riverside County, California.
Interventions
- Behavioral Prevention Ambassadors
Delivery of prevention supplies and information on local services plus training to build the capacity of PWUD to distribute HIV self-testing (HIVST) kits with information and referrals to other PWUD in their social networks to promote HIV testing and HIV service engagement among PWUD. - Behavioral SSP Standard of Care
Delivery of prevention supplies and information on local services.
Primary outcome measures
- HIV testing (past 3 months) [Time frame: 3-month follow-up]
- Linkage to PrEP/HIV care (past 3 months) [Time frame: 3-month follow-up]
- PrEP/ART uptake (past 3 months) [Time frame: 3-month follow-up]
Secondary outcome measures (4)
- PA Acceptability (Peer-Recruit Participants) [Time frame: Baseline]
- PA Acceptability (Index Participants) [Time frame: 3-month follow-up]
- PA Feasibility (Peer-Recruit Participants) [Time frame: Baseline]
- PA Feasibility (Index Participants) [Time frame: 3-month follow-up]
Eligibility criteria
Index Participant Inclusion Criteria:
- Being greater than or equal to 18 years old
- Reporting drug use (past month)
- Having other people who use drugs (PWUD) in one's social network
- Being willing to talk about HIV testing and services with at least 2 PWUD in their networks and attempt to refer them to the study
- Speaking English fluently
Peer-Recruit Participant Inclusion Criteria:
- Being greater than or equal to 18 years old
- Reporting drug use (past 3 months)
- Being recruited by an index participant (evidenced by presenting the coupon used to recruit them)
- Speaking English fluently
Exclusion criteria
\- Persons who participated in formative study activities related to the development of the PA intervention will not be eligible to participate.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- San Diego State University — San Diego
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06848686 · HS-2023-0051 · R34DA058389