NCT04155320

Impart: Provider-Assisted HIV Partner Notification

Provider-Assisted HIV Partner Notification & Testing With Prisoners in Indonesia: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 55 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Illinois at Chicago · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Researchers will conduct a 2-arm pilot randomized controlled trial with HIV-infected index patients recruited from two all-male prisons in Indonesia to assess the acceptability and feasibility of provider-assisted HIV partner notification (provider referral) and examine its potential to increase the number of partners who are tested for HIV and subsequently linked to prevention and treatment services.

Detailed description

This study compares three options for partner notification: * Option 1 (Self-tell): Participant is encouraged to disclose his HIV+ status to his partner(s) and given information about sites where his partner(s) can receive free HIV testing. * Option 2 (Tell together): Participant discloses his HIV+ status to his partners with a counselor (project staff) present. Counselor refers the partner to HIV testing, including a study-affiliated HIV testing site. * Option 3 (Provider referral): Project staff (nurse or peer educator) will notify the partner anonymously - without identifying the participant (index patient). Partners are offered immediate HIV testing in their home or at a study-affiliated HIV testing site.

Conditions

• HIV Infections
• Partner Communication

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	IMPART	Subjects receive counseling about partner notification and are assisted in identifying all their partners and choosing a notification method for each partner. Subjects have the option to: 1) disclose their HIV status to their partner(s) by themselves (self-tell), 2) disclose their HIV status to their partner(s) with a healthcare provider present (tell together), or 3) have their partner(s) notified confidentially by a disease notifier (anonymous provider referral), who will locate partners, notify them of potential HIV exposure, and offer them HIV testing. Partners with an initial reactive HIV screening test will be referred to care and treatment services.
BEHAVIORAL	Standard Care	Subjects receive counseling about partner notification and are assisted in identifying all their partners and choosing a notification method for each partner. Subjects are responsible for contacting and notifying their partner(s) on their own. Subjects have the option to: 1) disclose their HIV status to their partner(s) by themselves (self-tell) or 2) disclose their HIV status to their partner(s) with a healthcare provider present (tell together). Subjects may decide which partners to notify and may choose the same or a different method for each partner.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-01-27
• Primary completion: 2021-03-26
• Completion: 2021-11-12
• First posted: 2019-11-07
• Last updated: 2022-05-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Indonesia