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

Conditions

• HIV

Eligibility Criteria

Sex

ALL

Age

18 Years - N/A

Healthy Volunteers

Accepted

Interventions

• Prevention Ambassadors — BEHAVIORAL
  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.
• SSP Standard of Care — BEHAVIORAL
  Delivery of prevention supplies and information on local services.

Study Details

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.

Key Dates

Start date

Feb 3, 2025

Status verified

Jan 2026

Primary completion

Jul 31, 2026

Completion

Feb 28, 2027

Study Design

Enrollment

210 participants (estimated)

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

Arms

• Experimental: Prevention Ambassadors
• Other: SSP Standard of Care

Primary Outcome Measure

HIV testing (past 3 months) [ Time Frame: 3-month follow-up ]

Central Contacts

• Heather Pines
  619-594-2481
  [email protected]

Locations (1)

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