NCT03662165

Increase HIV Testing Among Truck Drivers and Female Sex Workers in Kenya Through Offering HIV Self-Testing

Completed NA Last updated 7 September 2018

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Intervention in HIV Testing in 4,458 participants. Completed in 27 April 2017.

Timeline

20 December 2016

Primary endpoint
27 April 2017

27 April 2017

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	City University of New York, School of Public Health
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	screening
Enrollment	4,458
Start date	20 December 2016
Primary completion	27 April 2017
Estimated completion	27 April 2017
Sites	1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• Intervention
• Enhanced Standard of Care
• Traditional Standard of Care

Conditions studied

• HIV Testing — all drugs for HIV Testing →

Sponsor

City University of New York, School of Public Health

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with HIV Testing. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

The study aimed to assess whether advertising the availability of self-administered oral HIV testing kits increases the number of truck drivers and female sex workers who come to the North Star Alliance clinics for HIV testing (Demand creation). The investigators sent text messages to eligible truck drivers and female sex workers registered in the North Star Alliance electronic health record system who, based on those records, were not accessing HIV testing regularly and randomized them to receive one of two messaged, (1) the standard message sent to all clients who have not tested for HIV in the past 3 months reminding them of the availability of HIV testing at North Star clinics or (2) a text message announcing the availability of HIV self-testing kits fat all North Star clinics in Kenya. The investigators then compared the number of truck drivers and female sex workers from our samples who came to the clinic for HIV testing over a 2 month period following the first text message in the two study arms.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Announcing the availability of oral HIV self-test kits via text message to increase HIV testing among hard-to-reach truckers in Kenya: a randomized controlled trial.
   Kelvin EA, George G, Kinyanjui S, Mwai E, et al · · 2019 · cited 33× · PMID 30606161 · DOI 10.1186/s12889-018-6345-1