Linking High-Risk Jail Detainees to HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis: PrEP-LINK

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: HIV/AIDS, Pre-exposure Prophylaxis

In brief

Our proposed study will: provide a novel exploration of facilitators and barriers to PrEP; allow us to target hard to reach populations, including men who have sex with men (MSM) and substance users (both of which are top funding priority groups for the National Institutes of Health) who experience intersecting markers of HIV risk; and inform regional, and possibly national, intervention approaches to combat the overlapping epidemic of HIV and incarceration.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04064567

Run by

University of Arkansas

People needed

100

Starts

2019-09-30

Expected to finish

2024-04-30

Last updated by the study team

2025-06-08

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Age greater than or equal to 18 at study enrollment
• Able to understand and speak English and to provide written and verbal informed consent.
• Able to provide reliable pieces of locator information (e.g. mailing address, phone number, email address, places frequently visited, etc.)
• HIV negative confirmed through an on-site rapid HIV test;
• Recently released from the Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility into the community and not into another detention facility or recently released (within 30 days) from a correctional facility and residing in Central Arkansas.
• At substantial risk for HIV as determined by CDC/WHO PrEP guidelines, which includes engaging in any of the following behaviors in the last six months:
• Having condomless vaginal or anal sex with more than one partner,
• Having a sex partner with one or more HIV risk (e.g. PWID, a sex worker),
• Being diagnosed with a STI,
• Reporting history of sharing injection material/equipment, or
• Having a sexual partner who is HIV positive.

You may not qualify if…

• Potential participants unable to provide informed consent, including people with severe mental illness requiring immediate treatment or with mental illness limiting their ability to participate (e.g., dementia), will be excluded.

Where it is running

• Better Community Development, Inc — Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
• Central Arkansas Community Corrections Center — Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
• Pulaski County County Regional Detention Facility — Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
• Quality Living Center — Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
• Recovery Centers of Arkansas — Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
• Hidden Creek Opportunity Center — Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
• East Central Arkansas Community Correction Center — West Memphis, Arkansas, United States

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