NCT06844045

Point of Care STI Testing

Clinical and Implementation Outcomes of a Point of Care Sexually Transmitted Infection Testing Strategy to Improve HIV Prevention Service Delivery in Adolescents

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 5,150 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years – 24 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The proposed research hypothesizes that point-of-care testing (POCT) for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) gonorrhea and chlamydia will be a feasible, acceptable, and appropriate implementation strategy for improving HIV testing and Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) delivery in youth, by increasing opportunities for clinician-patient counseling, decreasing loss to follow up, and allowing for same-day HIV prevention service provision. This hypothesis will be tested in a pragmatic non-randomized trial comparing clinical (HIV testing and PrEP counseling and prescription) and implementation (feasibility, acceptability, and appropriateness) outcomes between adolescents receiving POCT compared to laboratory-based testing at three clinics within a large pediatric health system.

Conditions

• Point of Care STI Testing

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Gonorrhea/chlamydia Point-of-Care Testing	Point-of-care testing for sexually transmitted infections.

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-01-16
• Primary completion: 2026-03-30
• Completion: 2026-12-31
• First posted: 2025-02-25
• Last updated: 2025-11-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States