Targeting Interventions at Venues Where Risk of HIV Transmission is High

NCT ID: NCT01423357

Last Updated: 2011-08-25

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: PHASE1
• Total Enrollment: 537 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2009-02-28
• Study Completion Date: 2010-03-31

Brief Summary

The aim of this study is to investigate whether distribution of condoms and condom demonstrations by youth peer educators in venues where people meet new sexual partners in Livingstone, Zambia, leads to increased condom use among guests socializing in these venues.

Detailed Description

In countries where the HIV prevalence is high, focusing on high risk places such as venues where people meet new sexual partners is probably more effective in reducing the transmission rate of HIV than targeting interventions just at perceived high risk groups. A survey conducted in 2005 in places where people met new sexual partners in Livingstone found that guests socializing there were engaging in high risk sex, but condoms were not always available in the venues. In this intervention study, youth peer educators will distribute condoms and demonstrate condom use in venues where people meet new sexual partners. After the intervention has run for a year, condom use among guests socializing in such venues in the intervention township will be compared with condom use among people socializing in similar venues in a comparison township.

Conditions

HIV

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Condom distribution and peer education

Youth peer educators distribute condoms and conduct condom demonstration in venues where people meet new sexual partners, i.e. bars, night clubs, sherbeens, guest houses

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Condom distribution and peer education

Intervention Type: OTHER

Condom distribution and condom demonstrations by youth peer educators at least twice a week

Business as usual

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Condom distribution and peer education

Condom distribution and condom demonstrations by youth peer educators at least twice a week

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Socializing in a venue where people are said to be meeting new sexual partners
• Age 18 years and above

Exclusion Criteria

• Too drunk to give sensible answers

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of Bergen

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of Zambia

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Ingvild Fossgard Sandoy

Researcher

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Charles C Michelo, MD, MPH, PhD

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

University of Zambia

Cosmas M Zyaambo, MD, MPhil

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Zambia

Knut M Fylkesnes, DMD. DrPhilos

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

University of Bergen

Locations

Dambwa

Livingstone, , Zambia

Maramba

Livingstone, , Zambia

Countries

Zambia

References

Sandoy IF, Siziya S, Fylkesnes K. Lost opportunities in HIV prevention: programmes miss places where exposures are highest. BMC Public Health. 2008 Jan 24;8:31. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-31.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

PMID: 18218124 (View on PubMed)

Sandoy IF, Zyaambo C, Michelo C, Fylkesnes K. Targeting condom distribution at high risk places increases condom utilization-evidence from an intervention study in Livingstone, Zambia. BMC Public Health. 2012 Jan 5;12:10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-10.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 22221738 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

PLACE

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id