NCT07528573Completed
HIV Prevention and Care Engagement in Nepal
Sweekar - Multi-level Intersectional Stigma Reduction Intervention to Increase HIV Testing and Care Engagement in Nepal
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 14 Apr 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This intervention focuses on increasing HIV testing, HIV medication adherence and reducing intersectional stigma. Our Sweekar intervention will implement 5 months of group-based activities to address the social stigma and HIV prevention and care needs.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 31 (actual)
- First submitted
- 27 Oct 2025
- Start date
- 27 May 2024
- Primary completion date
- 31 May 2025
- Lead sponsor
- Public Health Foundation Enterprises, Inc.
- Diseases
- HIV
- NCT number
- NCT07528573
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 31
- From 27 May 2024 to the primary completion date, 31 May 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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Age
- Age under 18 -
Other
- Cannot or will not consent to the research,
- Female sex assigned at birth,
- Self-identify as a man
- Do not speak Maithli or Nepali
Who the study is looking for
- aged 18 years old or older
- identify as transgender, hijra, Meti, third gender or anything other than a gender typically associated with a male assigned sex at birth
- live in the Terai highway district Madesh Province
- Maithili- or Nepali-speaking
- Willing to be part of the study for 6 months
- Willing to travel, if needed, to participate in group sessions
- For those who test HIV negative:
- Willing to self-test
- Have or willing to have a mobile phone
- Not HIV tested within the last 3 months
- For those who test HIV positive:
- (a) screen positive for HIV treatment non-adherence by self-report
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: Female · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BDS Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kathmandu | Nepal | Unknown status |
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