Acceptability/Feasibility of HIV Testing by ELISA or Rapid Test to Adult Patients in Paris, France

Hopital Lariboisière

Status: Completed

Conditions: HIV

Treatments: Procedure: HIV testing by ELISA; Procedure: HIV testing by rapid test

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02574208

DEPICAB

Details and patient eligibility

About

CDC recommends universal HIV testing in all adults, at least once during life, to reduce the pool of infected patients unaware of their status. Routine universal HIV testing can use "classical" ELISA tests from serum, or rapid tests, ideally from finger-stick whole blood (FSB), which have shown close predictive values from classical tests. The investigators will compare the acceptability and feasibility of the two methods.

Full description

The multi-center prospective randomized study will compare the acceptability and feasibility of routine universal HIV testing to adult patients consulting their general practitioner in Paris, France, using either the " classical " ELISA tests from serum or rapid tests from FSB (Insti®).

Enrollment: 260 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• adult patients consulting their general practitioner in Paris, France

Exclusion criteria

• patients previously known as HIV-positive,
• patients who declare having been tested HIV-negative less than three months ago,
• patients who can not give informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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260 participants in 2 patient groups

"HIV testing by ELISA"

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients enrolled in this arm will be tested by usual HIV Elisa

Treatment:

Procedure: HIV testing by ELISA

"HIV testing by rapid test"

Experimental group

Description:

Patients enrolled in this arm will be tested by the new rapid HIV test

Treatment:

Procedure: HIV testing by rapid test