NCT06148584

Testing a Barbershop-based HIV Prevention Initiative Among Men

Feasibility and Acceptability of a Barbershop Based HIV Prevention Initiative Among Heterosexual Men in Kalangala Islands, Uganda: A Cluster Randomized Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 250 (actual)
• Sponsor: HIV Prevention Trials Network · Network
• Sex: Male
• Age: 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

To test community-based approaches to engage heterosexual men at risk for HIV and specifically to assess the feasibility and acceptability of a barbershop based HIV prevention program.

Detailed description

HPTN 111/TRIM is a cluster randomized study to assess the feasibility and acceptability of a barbershop-based HIV prevention program. Eighteen barbershops in Kalangala District, Uganda will be purposively selected to participate in the study and randomized 2:1 to provide the barbershop-based HIV prevention initiative (intervention) or the standard-of-care (control). Individual participants will be enrolled from the barbershops and receive intervention or control services based on their barbershop. The barbershop-based HIV prevention initiative will include barber provided status-neutral HIV education, HIV self-test kits, and information about where to receive HIV prevention services.

Conditions

• HIV Infections

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	General, status-neutral HIV education	General, status-neutral HIV education
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	HIV self-test kits	HIV self-test kits
OTHER	Information about where to receive HIV prevention services	Information about where to receive HIV prevention services
BEHAVIORAL	Barber-led peer support group education	Barber-led peer support group education
BEHAVIORAL	Facility-based HIV risk reduction counseling	Facility-based HIV risk reduction counseling
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	Facility-based HIV testing	Facility-based HIV testing
OTHER	Information about facility distributed HIV self-test kits	Information about facility distributed HIV self-test kits
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	STI testing	STI testing

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-03-13
• Primary completion: 2025-06-30
• Completion: 2025-06-30
• First posted: 2023-11-28
• Last updated: 2025-10-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Uganda