AN INVESTIGATION OF INTERVENTIONS TO INCREASE UPTAKE OF HIV SELF-TESTING AND LINKAGE TO POST-TEST SERVICES AMONG HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS IN ZIMBABWE
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- HIV/AIDS
- Registration Number
- PACTR202111848628644
- Lead Sponsor
- iverpool School of Tropical Medicine
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 9600
Inclusion Criteria
Aged 16 years old or over;
Possesses personal mobile phone;
Currently enrolled at a tertiary education institution where HIV self-test kits are being distributed as part of this study; and
Willing to test for HIV using an HIV self-test kit and provide verbal consent
Exclusion Criteria
Does not possess personal mobile phone
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Proportion of students taking up self-testing;Proportion of self-testers with reactive (positive) self-test results who link to confirmatory testing
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Proportion of self-testers with confirmed HIV positive results who link to HIV treatment (antiretroviral treatment) ;Proportion of self-testers who link to HIV prevention services – pre-exposure prophylaxis, PrEP, and/or voluntary medical male circumcision, VMMC;Cost and cost effectiveness of peer-led plus mass media-supported model of self-test service provision compared to mass media alone per a) student tested for HIV, b) student started on ART, c) student started on PrEP or VMMC