Home-Based Versus Partner-Friendly Clinic Testing to Enhance Male Partner HIV-1 Testing During Pregnancy

University of Washington

Status: Completed

Conditions: Male Partner; Home Based; HIV Counseling and Testing; Pregnancy

Treatments: Other: HIV counseling and testing

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01620073

42561

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators hypothesize that home based HIV counseling and testing can increase male partner uptake of HIV testing during pregnancy.

The investigators study aims through a randomized clinical trial to determine whether a home-based model (HBM) versus a partner-friendly clinic model (PFM) can increase male uptake of HIV counseling and testing during pregnancy.

Enrollment: 488 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Pregnant women and their male partners

Exclusion criteria

• Non-pregnant, minors, inability to live in study area for 6 weeks

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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488 participants in 2 patient groups

Partner friendly arm

Other group

Description:

Proportion of males counseled and tested using routine standards of prenatal care

Treatment:

Other: HIV counseling and testing

Home based arm

Experimental group

Description:

Proportion of male partners accepting HIV counseling and testing following home visits for couple HIV counseling and testing during pregnancy

Treatment:

Other: HIV counseling and testing