Effect of Community Social Mobilization for the Prevention of HIV in Young South African Women

University of North Carolina (UNC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Gender Relations

Treatments: Behavioral: Community Social Mobilization program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02129530

11-2062

Details and patient eligibility

About

The overall purpose is to assess whether a community social mobilization (CSM) program focused on young men ages 18-35 years of age changes gender norms in the community. The secondary purpose is to determine if there is a combined effect of CSM and HPTN 068 (Conditional Cash Transfers) on HIV and HSV-2 incidence. The goal of the mobilization activities is to engage young men around the issues of gender norms, intimate partner violence and HIV risk and to encourage them to take action to protect young women and reduce HIV risk in their communities.

Enrollment: 2,502 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Quantitative Work

• Men and women ages 18-35 years
• Have lived in study area continuously for the past 12 months
• Able and willing to provide informed consent

Qualitative Work

• Men and women ages 18-99 years
• A community member, CAT member or community mobilizer
• Able and willing to provide informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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2,502 participants in 2 patient groups

Community Social Mobilization Program

Experimental group

Description:

A manualized intervention developed with Sonke Gender Justice Network using a workshop intervention manual and a community mobilization toolkit will be used.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Community Social Mobilization program

Control Arm

No Intervention group

Description:

The Control Arm does not receive the Community Mobilization Intervention