NCT07117656Recruiting
Project Vuselela Feasibility
Developing and Pilot Testing Project Vuselela for ART and OST Engagement in Johannesburg, South Africa
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 12 Aug 2025 · Not updated for over 12 months - ask the site whether it is still open
Brief summary (registry, in English)
To develop an intervention that engages family members in supporting HIV and opioid substitution therapy treatment for those who inject drugs in South Africa, and then conduct a pilot study to understand feasibility and preliminary impact on outcomes.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 80 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 15 Jul 2025
- Start date
- 13 Jul 2025
- Primary completion date
- 28 Aug 2027
- Lead sponsor
- Arizona State University
- Diseases
- HIV
- NCT number
- NCT07117656
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 80
- From 13 Jul 2025 to the primary completion date, 28 Aug 2027
- 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
Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.
Prior treatment
- Notself-reported injection drug use behavior
- Does not know about drug using behavior by the PLWHID
Other illness
- HIV-negative as per medical record
Age
- Under 18 years of age
- Under 18 years of age
- Recent history of self-reported drug-using behavior (\< 5 years)
Other
- PLHWID Exclusion Criteria
- Has participated in the current ART-OST program
- Taking ART or OST
- Cannot identify a potential family member who can provide support
- Does not live in Johannesburg
- Family Member Exclusion Criteria
- Not a family member
Who the study is looking for
- Aim 2 PLHWID Inclusion Criteria
- Any sex or gender
- \>18 years of age
- HIV-positive as per medical record
- Self-reported injection drug use behavior
- Have not participated in the current ART-OST program
- Initiating ART or OST
- Identifies a potential family member who can provide support
- Live in Johannesburg
- Family Member Inclusion Criteria
- 18 years of age or older
- Confirms family member (parent, sibling, partner, aunt, uncle, grandparent, cousin)
- Knowledge of the drug using behavior by the PLWHID, but knowledge of their HIV status is not required.
- No recent history of self-reported drug-using behavior (\< 5 years)
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anova Health Institute Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Johannesburg | South Africa | Recruiting |
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