Costs, Efficiency and the Role of Management in HIV Prevention Interventions for Female Sex Workers in Nigeria

Secretariat of Health

Status: Terminated

Conditions: HIV/AIDS

Treatments: Behavioral: Management training and data feedback

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03371914

INSaludPublica

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study seeks to measure the costs associated with HIV prevention service delivery to female sex workers (FSW) in Nigeria, as well as examine the relationship between management practices at the community-based organizations (CBOs) and costs. To complete these goals, the study will collect both retrospective and prospective data from CBOs and from centralized information from study partners (Society for Family Health, SFH). In the prospective section of the study, CBOs will be sampled and assigned to either treatment or control groups. Data collected at the CBOs will be aggregated by the CBO managers, and those in the treatment group will receive feedback on their performance on a monthly basis. Those in the treatment group will additionally receive a management training to guide their management practices. Researchers hypothesize that there will be improvements in management indicators and therefore decreases in costs at CBOs in the treatment group. Results will be disseminated to local, national, and international stakeholders.

Enrollment: 32 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Clusters: community-based organizations that serve female sex workers under Society for Family Health, through the SHIPs or Global Fund grants
• Participants: managers ("officers") that oversee the functions of the organization and supervise volunteer staff

Exclusion criteria

• Clusters: excludes organizations not serving female sex workers and not working under Society for Family Health, through Global Fund or SHIPs grants
• Participants: excludes anyone not explicitly working as a manager overseeing volunteer implementation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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32 participants in 2 patient groups

Treatment: Management + data training

Experimental group

Description:

The treatment group in the study will receive a 5-day training. The first two days of the training will consist of introducing the data collection tools and collecting baseline data. Days three through five of the training will consist of a variety of management topics. On a monthly basis, the treatment group will receive data visualizations that will compare their site's performance that month to pervious performance and to other sites in the study. Both treatment and control groups will collect information regarding input costs and number of services provided on a monthly basis.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Management training and data feedback

Control: data training only

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group will receive only a 2-day training which will focus on data collection alone. Both treatment and control groups will collect information regarding input costs and number of services provided on a monthly basis.