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

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: HIV

• Registration Number: NCT06848686
• Lead Sponsor: San Diego State University

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2025-02
• Study Start: 2025-02-03
• Study First Submitted: 2025-02-18
• Study First Submitted QC: 2025-02-21
• Study First Posted: 2025-02-27
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-04-08
• Last Update Posted: 2025-04-11
• Primary Completion: 2025-12
• Study Completion: 2026-02

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 150

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.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
HIV testing (past 3 months)	3-month follow-up	Self-reported via survey and abstracted from medical record
Linkage to PrEP/HIV care (past 3 months)	3-month follow-up	Self-reported via survey and abstracted from medical record
PrEP/ART uptake (past 3 months)	3-month follow-up	Self-reported via survey and abstracted from medical record

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
PA Acceptability (Peer-Recruit Participants)	Baseline	Self-reported via survey
PA Acceptability (Index Participants)	3-month follow-up	Self-reported via survey
PA Feasibility (Peer-Recruit Participants)	Baseline	Self-reported via survey
PA Feasibility (Index Participants)	3-month follow-up	Self-reported via survey

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

San Diego State University; 🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States