Home self-sampling for HIV and other sexual infections in sex workers
Tests home self-sampling for sexual infections in sex workers.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- University Hospital, Montpellier
- Where
- Montpellier, FranceSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Strengthening, Guidance, Health, Empowerment
- Status
- Not yet recruiting
- People taking part
- 200 people, planned
- Started
- Sept 2026
- Expected to end
- Dec 2027
- Type of study
- Interventional
- Treatments tested
- Self-sampling for six sexually transmitted infections
- Record updated
- 26 August 2026
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for adults who are sex workers. They get a home kit to test themselves for six sexually transmitted infections.
- Age
- 18 years or older
- Sex
- All sexes
Main reasons for not taking part
- Cannot understand the study
- Under guardianship, curatorship or a future protection mandate
- Still in the exclusion period of another research study
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Being a sex worker or identifying as a sex worker
- Being an adult (18 years or older)
- Providing free and informed consent to participate in the study
Who cannot take part
- Inability to understand the study
- Being under guardianship, curatorship or a future protection mandate
- Participation in another research study with an exclusion period that is still ongoing at the time of pre-inclusion
Where in France
- ROSELA _ Médecins du MondeMontpellier, FranceContact: Victor DUPERRETNo longer taking part
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The goal of this interventional study is to describe the care pathway following the use of an innovative home self-sampling method for the screening of six sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among sex workers met during physical or virtual outreach activities conducted by the ROSELA programme of Médecins du Monde in Montpellier and the surrounding area.
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The main questions it aims to answer are:
* How many people are offered STI self-sampling, receive a self-sampling kit, and return the collected samples for laboratory testing * What proportion of participants are recontacted and attend a consultation following the screening results Participants will receive a self-sampling kit allowing them to collect samples at home or at a place of their choice and complete a questionnaire covering socio-demographic information and information related to their sex work activity.
The group in the trial
- Self-sampling groupOther group
Participants are sex workers encountered during physical or virtual outreach activities conducted by the ROSELA programme of Médecins du Monde in Montpellier and the surrounding area. They will complete a study questionnaire and will be offered the self-sampling kit.
Treatment: Self-sampling for six sexually transmitted infections
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
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- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Renforcement, Orientation, Santé, Empowerment
- Plain-language title
- Home self-sampling for HIV and other sexual infections in sex workersGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 12 November 2026.
- Record updated
- 26 August 2026