NCT06848686

Prevention Ambassadors: Intervention to Promote HIV Service Engagement in the Networks of SSP Clients

Prevention Ambassadors: an HIV Self-testing Intervention to Promote HIV Service Engagement in the Networks of SSP Clients

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 210 (estimated)
• Sponsor: San Diego State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

HIV testing and service uptake are infrequent among people who use drugs (PWUD) in the United States. In partnership with a community-based syringe service program (SSP), this project will develop the SSP-based "Prevention Ambassadors" (PA) intervention to promote HIV testing and service uptake among PWUD via the secondary distribution (i.e., peer delivery) of HIV self-testing (HIVST) kits with local HIV service information and referrals to HIV service navigation in the social networks of SSP clients (i.e., PWUD). The PA intervention will then be piloted to assess its preliminary effects, acceptability, and feasibility among PWUD in the Ending the HIV Epidemic priority jurisdiction of Riverside County, California.

Conditions

• HIV

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Prevention Ambassadors	Delivery of prevention supplies and information on local services plus training to build the capacity of PWUD to distribute HIV self-testing (HIVST) kits with information and referrals to other PWUD in their social networks to promote HIV testing and HIV service engagement among PWUD.
BEHAVIORAL	SSP Standard of Care	Delivery of prevention supplies and information on local services.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-02-03
• Primary completion: 2026-07-01
• Completion: 2027-02-01
• First posted: 2025-02-27
• Last updated: 2026-01-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States