Addressing Gender Based Violence in HIV Testing and Counseling

Population Council

Status: Completed

Conditions: Intimate Partner Violence

Treatments: Behavioral: IPV/GBV HTC

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT02577380

Population Council # 640

Details and patient eligibility

About

The overarching goal of this study is to pilot an approach to HIV testing and counseling (HTC) that addresses intimate partner violence. The results of the study will fill an important gap in the literature and contribute to efforts by Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya-and the HIV and sexual and reproductive health field globally-to better address intimate partner violence in our work.

Enrollment: 500 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 15 to 49 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Lived in the community for at least one year
• Aged 15-49 years
• Satisfy gender requirement

Exclusion criteria

• Lack of informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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500 participants in 2 patient groups

IPV/GBV HIV testing and counseling

Experimental group

Description:

For the randomized controlled trial, first-time antenatal care clients will be randomly assigned to IPV/GBV HTC HIV testing.

Treatment:

Behavioral: IPV/GBV HTC

Standard HIV testing and counseling

No Intervention group

Description:

For the randomized controlled trial, first-time antenatal care clients will be randomly assigned to Standard HIV testing and counseling.