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High Risk Crack Use Settings and HIV in El Salvador (Encuentro)

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Medical College of Wisconsin

Status

Completed

Conditions

Sexually Transmitted Diseases
HIV

Treatments

Behavioral: Peer Network Intervention
Behavioral: Social Network HIV Testing

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other
NIH

Identifiers

NCT01279421
PRO00013931
R01DA020350 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project will first increase the accessibility and acceptability of rapid HIV testing in health clinics located in or near four low-income communities in San Salvador, El Salvador. The investigators will use crack users' social networks and small incentives, as recommended by the CDC, in collaboration with the Salvadoran Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance (MSPAS) to encourage crack users to receive HIV testing. The second part of the intervention consists of training 8 Peer Leaders to recruit and lead a Peer Network Intervention among 400 crack users to change norms supporting HIV protective behaviors. The intervention will include monthly meetings open to crack using and non-crack using community residents to reinforce HIV risk reduction skills, and discussion of other topics related to HIV such as illicit drug use and interpersonal violence and community-wide HIV awareness events. Our hypothesis is that these two intervention features will singly, and in combination, reduce HIV risk behaviors among Salvadoran crack users.

Enrollment

4,382 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • 18 years or older
  • used crack cocaine in the last 2 weeks

Exclusion criteria

  • not giving informed consent
  • under 18 years of age
  • considered by research staff to be unfit or unable to give informed consent
  • engages in continued disruptive behavior while participating in the project
  • not using crack or cocaine in the last month

Trial design

Primary purpose

Prevention

Allocation

Non-Randomized

Interventional model

Single Group Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

4,382 participants in 2 patient groups

Social Network HIV Testing
Experimental group
Description:
Participants in this arm will be recruited through social networks and will receive an HIV test.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Social Network HIV Testing
Peer Network Intervention
Experimental group
Description:
Eight (8) current or former crack users will be recruited to facilitate small networks of crack users in a three-day intervention. They will also facilitate monthly meetings open to all community members regarding HIV prevention and interpersonal violence.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Peer Network Intervention

Trial contacts and locations

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