Engaging Informal Health Care Providers on Case Detection and Treatment Initiation Rates for TB and HIV in Rural Malawi (Triage Plus)

• Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
• Last refreshed on: 19 February 2015
• Main ID: NCT02127983
• Date of registration: 29/04/2014
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
• Public title: Engaging Informal Health Care Providers on Case Detection and Treatment Initiation Rates for TB and HIV in Rural Malawi (Triage Plus) Triage
• Scientific title: Engaging Informal Health Care Providers on Case Detection and Treatment Initiation Rates for TB and HIV in Rural Malawi (Triage Plus): a Cluster Randomised Health System Intervention Trial
• Date of first enrolment: January 2009
• Target sample size: 200000
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02127983
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
• Phase: N/A

Countries of recruitment

Malawi

Contacts

• Name: Rachael Thomson, MSc
• Affiliation: LSTM

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- People accessing informal providers with possible TB or HIV

Exclusion Criteria:

- children

- people already with a diagnosis of TB or HIV



Age minimum: 16 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Tuberculosis

HIV

Intervention(s)

Behavioral: Early intervention

Behavioral: Delayed intervention

Primary Outcome(s)

TB and HIV treatment initiation [Time Frame: 2 years]

Secondary Outcome(s)

TB and HIV diagnostic uptake rates. [Time Frame: 2 years]

Secondary ID(s)

TriagePlus

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors

Secondary Sponsor(s)

Research for Equity And Community Health REACH Trust

LHL International Tuberculosis Foundation

University of Warwick

Ministry of Health and Population, Malawi