Conditional Cash Transfers to Increase Uptake of and Retention of PMTCT Services

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

433 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2013-04-30

Study Completion Date

2015-04-30

Brief Summary

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The goals of the proposed study are to: 1) test whether small, increasing cash payments to HIV-infected pregnant women, on the condition that they attend scheduled clinic visits and receive proposed services, will increase the proportion of women who receive the most effective antiretroviral regimen they are eligible for by the time of delivery, and 2) elucidate factors that facilitate or inhibit the uptake and adherence to the PMTCT cascade, and to what extent the conditional cash payment program addresses these factors.

This intervention will be implemented and evaluated within our well-established PMTCT program in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),

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Detailed Description

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Conditions

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HIV

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Caregivers

Study Groups

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Standard of Care

Routine implementation of the national PMTCT guidelines which are an adaptation of the WHO's "Option A"

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Conditional Cash Transfer

Financial incentive to attend regular clinic visits and receive PMTCT care

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Conditional cash transfer

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligible women randomized to the intervention group will receive the standard of care plus small and increasing cash payments, on the condition that they attend scheduled clinic visits on time (+/-5days), accept HIV services, deliver in a health facility, and at six weeks postpartum adhere to prescribed infant prophylactic drugs (cotrimoxazole, extended NVP) and provide blood sample for DNA PCR infant early HIV diagnosis.

Interventions

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Conditional cash transfer

Eligible women randomized to the intervention group will receive the standard of care plus small and increasing cash payments, on the condition that they attend scheduled clinic visits on time (+/-5days), accept HIV services, deliver in a health facility, and at six weeks postpartum adhere to prescribed infant prophylactic drugs (cotrimoxazole, extended NVP) and provide blood sample for DNA PCR infant early HIV diagnosis.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

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Contingency management

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Newly diagnosed as HIV-positive
* Pregnant between 28 and 32 weeks of gestation (\>27 and \<32 completed weeks of pregnancy)
* Intend to stay in Kinshasa through delivery and six weeks postpartum
* Able and willing to participate (provide informed consent)

Exclusion Criteria

* Women will be excluded from the study if they are severely ill and require extended hospitalization or need to be cared for at a referral hospital out of the PMTCT network

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes