NCT06848686Completed
Prevention Ambassadors: Intervention to Promote HIV Service Engagement in the Networks of SSP Clients
Prevention Ambassadors: an HIV Self-testing Intervention to Promote HIV Service Engagement in the Networks of SSP Clients
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 6 Oct 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
HIV testing and service uptake are infrequent among people who use drugs (PWUD) in the United States. In partnership with a community-based syringe service program (SSP), this project will develop the SSP-based "Prevention Ambassadors" (PA) intervention to promote HIV testing and service uptake among PWUD via the secondary distribution (i.e., peer delivery) of HIV self-testing (HIVST) kits with local HIV service information and referrals to HIV service navigation in the social networks of SSP clients (i.e., PWUD). The PA intervention will then be piloted to assess its preliminary effects, acceptability, and feasibility among PWUD in the Ending the HIV Epidemic priority jurisdiction of Riverside County, California.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 170 (actual)
- First submitted
- 18 Feb 2025
- Start date
- 3 Feb 2025
- Primary completion date
- 14 Aug 2026
- Lead sponsor
- San Diego State University
- Diseases
- HIV
- NCT number
- NCT06848686
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 170
- From 3 Feb 2025 to the primary completion date, 14 Aug 2026
- 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
- \- Persons who participated in formative study activities related to the development of the PA intervention will not be eligible to participate.
Criteria the registry did not label
- Index Participant Inclusion Criteria:
- Being greater than or equal to 18 years old
- Reporting drug use (past month)
- Having other people who use drugs (PWUD) in one's social network
- Being willing to talk about HIV testing and services with at least 2 PWUD in their networks and attempt to refer them to the study
- Speaking English fluently
- Peer-Recruit Participant Inclusion Criteria:
- Being greater than or equal to 18 years old
- Reporting drug use (past 3 months)
- Being recruited by an index participant (evidenced by presenting the coupon used to recruit them)
- Speaking English fluently
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Diego State University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | San Diego | United States | Unknown status |
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