NCT06148584Completed
Testing a Barbershop-based HIV Prevention Initiative Among Men
Feasibility and Acceptability of a Barbershop Based HIV Prevention Initiative Among Heterosexual Men in Kalangala Islands, Uganda: A Cluster Randomized Trial
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 20 Oct 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
To test community-based approaches to engage heterosexual men at risk for HIV and specifically to assess the feasibility and acceptability of a barbershop based HIV prevention program.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 271 (actual)
- First submitted
- 27 Oct 2023
- Start date
- 13 Mar 2024
- Primary completion date
- 30 Jun 2025
- Lead sponsor
- HIV Prevention Trials Network
- Diseases
- HIV
- NCT number
- NCT06148584
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 271
- From 13 Mar 2024 to the primary completion date, 30 Jun 2025
- 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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Other illness
- Any other condition that in the opinion of the Investigator of Record (IoR)/designee, would preclude informed consent, make study participation unsafe, complicate interpretation of study outcome data, or otherwise interfere with achieving the study objectives.
- Participants who report sex with other men will not be excluded from this study so long as they meet the inclusion and exclusion criteria listed above.
Other
- Persons who meet any of the following criteria will be excluded from this study:
- Not planning to stay in the study catchment area in the next 12 months
Who the study is looking for
- Persons who identify as a heterosexual male and meet all of the following criteria are eligible for inclusion in this study:
- Age ≥ 16 years
- Any participants 16-17 years old will be enrolled following the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST) guidelines for mature and emancipated minors
- Able and willing to provide informed consent
- Behaviorally vulnerable to HIV, based on self-report of at least one of the following in the last three months:
- Had condomless sex with a person of unknown HIV status or a person living with HIV
- Had more than one sexual partner
- HIV negative per Ugandan Ministry of Health guidelines and the Study-specific Procedures (SSP) Manual
- Is a regular customer at a participating barbershop as defined in the SSP Manual
Age in the registry: 16 years to - · Sex: Male · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MU-JHU Research Collaboration (MUJHU CARE LTD) CRS Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kampala | Uganda | Unknown status |
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