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Prevention Ambassadors: Intervention to Promote HIV Service Engagement in the Networks of SSP Clients

ConditionHIV
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorSan Diego State University

About this trial

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.

Eligibility criteria

This trial accepts healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

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

Disqualifiers

None

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Prevention Ambassadors

    Behavioral

    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.

  • SSP Standard of Care

    Behavioral

    Delivery of prevention supplies and information on local services.

Treatment groups

210 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: Prevention AmbassadorsExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: SSP Standard of CareOther 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

HIV testing (past 3 months)

Self-reported via survey and abstracted from medical record

Time frame
3-month follow-up
2

Linkage to PrEP/HIV care (past 3 months)

Self-reported via survey and abstracted from medical record

Time frame
3-month follow-up
3

PrEP/ART uptake (past 3 months)

Self-reported via survey and abstracted from medical record

Time frame
3-month follow-up

Secondary outcomes

1

PA Acceptability (Peer-Recruit Participants)

Self-reported via survey

Time frame
Baseline
2

PA Acceptability (Index Participants)

Self-reported via survey

Time frame
3-month follow-up
3

PA Feasibility (Peer-Recruit Participants)

Self-reported via survey

Time frame
Baseline
4

PA Feasibility (Index Participants)

Self-reported via survey

Time frame
3-month follow-up

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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San Diego State University

Lead sponsor

University of California, San Diego

Collaborator

University of California, Riverside

Collaborator

Dap Health

Collaborator

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Collaborator

Source ClinicalTrials.gov
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