Targeting Interventions at Venues Where Risk of HIV Transmission is High
Overview
- Phase
- Phase 1
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- HIV
- Sponsor
- University of Zambia
- Enrollment
- 537
- Locations
- 2
- Primary Endpoint
- Condom use with last sexual partner met in this venue
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 14 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
The aim of this study is to investigate whether distribution of condoms and condom demonstrations by youth peer educators in venues where people meet new sexual partners in Livingstone, Zambia, leads to increased condom use among guests socializing in these venues.
Detailed Description
In countries where the HIV prevalence is high, focusing on high risk places such as venues where people meet new sexual partners is probably more effective in reducing the transmission rate of HIV than targeting interventions just at perceived high risk groups. A survey conducted in 2005 in places where people met new sexual partners in Livingstone found that guests socializing there were engaging in high risk sex, but condoms were not always available in the venues. In this intervention study, youth peer educators will distribute condoms and demonstrate condom use in venues where people meet new sexual partners. After the intervention has run for a year, condom use among guests socializing in such venues in the intervention township will be compared with condom use among people socializing in similar venues in a comparison township.
Investigators
Ingvild Fossgard Sandoy
Researcher
University of Bergen
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Socializing in a venue where people are said to be meeting new sexual partners
- •Age 18 years and above
Exclusion Criteria
- •Too drunk to give sensible answers
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Condom use with last sexual partner met in this venue
Time Frame: in post-intervention survey (1 year after start of intervention)
Guests socializing in venues where people meet new sexual partners are asked about condom use with the last sexual partner met in the venue where interview conducted
Secondary Outcomes
- Condom availability in the last 12 months in venues where people meet new sexual partners(in post-intervention survey (1 year after start of intervention))