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

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University of North Carolina (UNC)

Status

Completed

Conditions

HIV

Treatments

Behavioral: Conditional cash transfer

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other
NIH

Identifiers

NCT01838005
12-1676
1R01HD075171-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

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),

Enrollment

433 patients

Sex

Female

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose

Health Services Research

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

433 participants in 2 patient groups

Standard of Care
No Intervention group
Description:
Routine implementation of the national PMTCT guidelines which are an adaptation of the WHO's "Option A"
Conditional Cash Transfer
Experimental group
Description:
Financial incentive to attend regular clinic visits and receive PMTCT care
Treatment:
Behavioral: Conditional cash transfer

Trial contacts and locations

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