Personalized HIV and STI Testing Tool (PHASTT)

Public Health Foundation Enterprises, Inc.

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Sexually Transmitted Infections (Not HIV or Hepatitis); HIV; Risk Reduction

Treatments: Behavioral: Sex Pro mobile Application

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT03109899

17-22103

5K23MH104116 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The PHASTT Study is focused on understanding of facilitators and barriers to mHealth use among young Black men who have sex with men (MSM), and testing a novel mobile app to increase HIV/STI testing and PrEP uptake.

Full description

The Sex Pro mobile application (app) being tested facilitates home HIV-testing, home sexually transmitted infection (STI) test self-collection, and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake. The app integrates a personalized HIV risk assessment with home HIV and STI testing options for young, Black MSM.

Enrollment: 80 estimated patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 29 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Self-identify as Black.
• Self-report being HIV negative.
• Report anal sex with at two or more male sex partners in the prior 12 months.
• Own an iOS or Android mobile phone.
• Willing and able to give written informed consent to participate in all activities outlined by the protocol.

Exclusion criteria

• Inadequate contact information for follow-up
• In a mutually monogamous sexual relationship for the past 12 months
• Currently taking PrEP
• Does not have reliable access to the internet
• Does not live, work or play in the San Francisco Bay Area
• Currently enrolled in another HIV intervention study
• Prior enrollment in an HIV vaccine trial with receipt of experimental vaccine product
• Any medical, psychiatric, or social condition, or occupational, or other responsibility that, in the judgment of the investigator, would make participation in the study unsafe, complicate interpretation of study outcome data, or otherwise interfere with achieving the study objectives.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in this arm will have access to the Sex Pro mobile app and support for HIV/STI testing and PrEP uptake.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Sex Pro mobile Application

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in this arm will be given the local standard of care for HIV/STI testing and PrEP access.