NCT03547739Completed
Testing Strategies for Couple Engagement in PMTCT and Family Health in Kenya
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 26 Sept 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study will test the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of an interdependence theory-based couples intervention in Kenya that reaches pregnant women and male partners through home visits by male-female pairs of lay health workers, and includes offer of home-based CHTC services.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 1600 (actual)
- First submitted
- 9 May 2018
- Start date
- 20 Mar 2019
- Primary completion date
- 27 Jun 2024
- Lead sponsor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Diseases
- HIV
- NCT number
- NCT03547739
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 1600
- From 20 Mar 2019 to the primary completion date, 27 Jun 2024
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Lab values
- Has not been offered HIV testing at ANC
Age
- Less than 15 years of age
Other
- Greater than 36 weeks of pregnancy
- Not currently in a stable relationship with a male partner
- Does not currently live with male partner
Who the study is looking for
- Women at 36 weeks of pregnancy or less
- 15 years of age or older
- Has been offered HIV testing at ANC
- Is currently in a stable relationship with a male partner and living with that male partner - Has not yet participated in couple HIV testing during this pregnancy.
- Male partner is the person identified by the pregnant woman as her primary male partner and should also be 15 years of age or older.
- Not in an HIV-positive concordant relationship.
Age in the registry: 15 years to - · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya Medical Research Institute Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nairobi | Kenya | Unknown status |
Related publications
- Effectiveness of interventions to promote couples-based HIV testing and family health during pregnancy and postpartum in Kenya: a multicentre, couples-based, randomised controlled trial.Lancet HIV · 2026 · PMID 42372779
- HIV-related stigma, couple relationship quality, and mental health in sero-discordant pregnant couples in Kenya.Appl Psychol Health Well Being · 2026 · PMID 41607089
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