Evaluating a Real-Time, Remote Monitoring System for Home-Based HIV Testing

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: HIV

In brief

This study explores whether offering follow-up counseling and referral over the phone after using a home-based HIV test increases rates of ever and repeat testing, compared with home-based testing with no follow-up (HBST alone) or mailing reminders for clinic-based testing.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02876926

Run by

Brown University

People needed

65

Starts

2016-07-01

Expected to finish

2018-02-15

Last updated by the study team

2019-04-19

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: male. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Sex with a partner met online in the past year
• Anal sex (either insertive or receptive) with a casual male partner in the past 6 months without using condoms or pre-exposure prophylaxis
• Own a smartphone (iOS or Android) with a service contract and data plan
• Have a stable address where mail can be received
• Speak English fluently

You may not qualify if…

• Having tested for HIV in the last year

Where it is running

• Brown University School of Public Health — Providence, Rhode Island, United States

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