NCT05079347Completed
Traditional Healer-initiated HIV Counseling and Testing in South Africa
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 18 Oct 2024
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The objective of this proposal is to conduct a pilot test of a program aimed at training traditional healers to conduct HIV testing and implementing HIV testing among people living in Bushbuckridge, South Africa. Pilot Healer-initiated HIV testing uptake and linkage to prevention services. Trust in allopathic health care and HIV stigma will be measured among participants at study enrollment and at month seven. Hypothesis: Healer-initiated HIV counseling and testing (HICT) will increase trust in allopathic health care and reduce HIV stigma.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 418 (actual)
- First submitted
- 1 Oct 2021
- Start date
- 22 Jul 2022
- Primary completion date
- 1 Sept 2023
- Lead sponsor
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Diseases
- HIV
- NCT number
- NCT05079347
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 418
- From 22 Jul 2022 to the primary completion date, 1 Sept 2023
- 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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Prior treatment
- Community members who are not out sound mind or body during the recruitment (inebriated, too sick to leave the house) and community members with a previous positive HIV test result.
Other illness
- Traditional healers who do not believe in HIV disease and those who can not pass their HIV counseling and testing certification.
- Biomedical practitioners who do not interact with patients seeking treatment for HIV.
Who the study is looking for
- Traditional healers \> 18 years of age, who are registered as traditional healers with the government of South Africa, are currently practicing in the Bushbuckridge area, and are trained to provide HIV testing.
- Biomedical practitioners \> 18 years of age, who are currently providing HIV-related health care services to patients at government or private health facilities in Bushbuckridge.
- Community members \> 18 years of age, who have not received an HIV test result in the past year and who currently live in Bushbuckridge.
Age in the registry: 18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thulamahashe Health Facility Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Thulamahashi | South Africa | Unknown status |
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