Package of Resources for Assisted Contact Tracing: Implementation, Costs, and Effectiveness

Brief summary (registry, in English)

Having health workers assist HIV-infected persons with the recruitment and testing of their sexual contacts and biological children is an effective and efficient way of identifying additional HIV-infected persons in need of HIV treatment and HIV-uninfected persons in need of HIV prevention. However, in Malawi, a country with a generalized HIV epidemic, health workers lack the counseling and coordination skills to routinely assist their HIV-infected clients with these services. This study will determine how to help health workers to effectively and efficiently provide these services to their patients through a set of digital capacity-building tools.

What you commit to

• Study type: Interventional
• Participants enrolled: 841
• From 1 Nov 2021 to the primary completion date, 30 Nov 2023
• 33 sites 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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Age in the registry: 15 years to - · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (33)

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Related publications

• Understanding how digital training enhances healthcare worker perceptions of HIV index case testing: a qualitative explanatory analysis.Res Sq · 2026 · PMID 41890851
• Effect of a digital training package on clinical outcomes in Malawi's index case testing programme: a cluster randomised controlled trial.BMJ Glob Health · 2026 · PMID 41825916