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Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT03049176
Date of registration: 07/02/2017
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: University of California, San Francisco
Public title: The Impact and Cost-effectiveness of Safer Conception Strategies for HIV-discordant Couples (SAFER) SAFER
Scientific title: The Impact and Cost-effectiveness of Safer Conception Strategies for HIV-discordant Couples
Date of first enrolment: March 13, 2017
Target sample size: 46
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT03049176
Study type:  Observational
Study design:   
Phase: 
Countries of recruitment
Zimbabwe
Contacts
Name:     Joelle M Brown, PhD, MPH
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Affiliation:  University of California, San Francisco
Name:     Felix Mhlanga, MBChB, MMed
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Affiliation:  UZ-UCSF Collaborative Research Programme
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

For all couples:

- Couple expresses a desire to conceive

- Sexually active (defined as having vaginal sex with one another at least 6 times in
the past 3 months

- Willing to enter the study as a couple and intending to remain as a couple and have a
sexual relationship for the next 12 months

- Willing to use at least one safer conception strategy

- For men, age =18 years. For women, age 18 - 35 years;

- Able and willing to provide written informed consent

For HIV-uninfected members of the couple

- HIV-negative based on parallel negative HIV rapid tests, both at study screening and
enrollment visit

- Adequate renal function, defined by normal creatinine levels and estimated creatinine
clearance =60 mL/min

For HIV-infected members of the couple

- HIV-positive based on parallel positive HIV rapid tests, based on national algorithm

- No current AIDS-defining illness

Exclusion Criteria:

- Amenorrheic

- Currently pregnant

- Active and serious infections, including active tuberculosis infection; active
clinically significant medical problems including cardiac disease, pulmonary disease,
and previously diagnosed malignancy expected to require further treatment.

- History of infertility defined as a year or more of regular unprotected intercourse
with current partner without pregnancy, or otherwise medically diagnosed infertility

- Currently on any concomitant medication that requires the participant to avoid use of
PrEP



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 35 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
HIV Infections
Intervention(s)
Drug: PrEP (Truvada)
Drug: Antiretrovirals
Procedure: Semen washing
Procedure: Artificial vaginal insemination
Primary Outcome(s)
Acceptability of safer conception strategies [Time Frame: 12 months]
Uptake of safer conception strategies [Time Frame: 12 months]
Adherence to safer conception strategies [Time Frame: 12 months]
Secondary Outcome(s)
costs of providing safer conception services [Time Frame: 12 months]
cost-effectiveness of safer conception strategies [Time Frame: 12 months]
Effectiveness of safer conception strategies on achieving pregnancy [Time Frame: 12 months]
Effectiveness of safer conception strategies on HIV prevention [Time Frame: 12 months]
Secondary ID(s)
K01MH100994
A126763
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
UZ-UCSF Collaborative Research Programme
Gilead Sciences
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Ethics review
Results
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