NCT00371540

Extending HIV Care Beyond the Rural Health Center

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 208 (actual)
• Sponsor: Indiana University School of Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The objective of this application is to develop and assess a system which uses non-clinician extenders to provide selected aspects of HIV care in rural western Kenya. The plan is to train persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWAs) to undertake this role as Community Care Coordinators. Our central hypothesis, is that PLWAs can be effective members of the health care team and that their involvement in community-based HIV care will facilitate patient access to services and improve outcomes. As such our two specific aims are: 1) To develop a sustainable system to extend HIV care into the community and to train the individuals necessary to support such a system (Community Care Coordinators). 2) To determine the impact of Community Care Coordinators on patient adherence (to drugs and to clinic visits), clinical outcomes (i.e. viral load responses \[an individuals level of circulating HIV virus\], inter-current opportunistic infections, hospitalization, drop out from the program, change to second line therapy and mortality) and patient perception of stigma. This study will provide invaluable data on the use of non-clinician care extenders for providing HIV care in resource poor settings. As such, knowledge gained from this study will assist in developing a model for non-clinician centered HIV care systems elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa.

Conditions

• HIV
• HIV Infections

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Home visit by community care coordinators	Decrease in patient visits to the clinic from the standard of once per month to every 3 months with home visits monthly.

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-02-01
• Primary completion: 2008-04-01
• Completion: 2008-04-01
• First posted: 2006-09-04
• Last updated: 2016-12-20
• Results posted: 2016-10-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Kenya