Increase HIV Testing Among Truck Drivers and Female Sex Workers in Kenya Through Offering HIV Self-Testing
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: HIV Testing
In brief
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.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT03662165
- Run by
- City University of New York, School of Public Health
- People needed
- 4458
- Starts
- 2016-12-20
- Expected to finish
- 2017-04-27
- Last updated by the study team
- 2018-09-07
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Truck Drivers or Trucking Assistants (Sample 1) and female sex workers(Sample 2) registered in the North Star Alliance electronic health record system and who
- had no indication that they were HIV-positive
- resided in Kenya
- had a valid mobile phone number listed
- had fewer than four HIV tests recorded in the system in the past 12 months (indicating that they were not following the recommendation to test every 3 months for 4 tests per year), and
- had not had an HIV test in the past 3 months.
You may not qualify if…
- None
Where it is running
- CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy — New York, New York, United States
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