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Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT03288246
Date of registration: 13/09/2017
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Public title: Point-of-care Viral Load Testing Among HIV-infected Adolescents in Haiti
Scientific title: Point-of-care Viral Load Testing Among HIV-infected Adolescents in Haiti
Date of first enrolment: May 3, 2018
Target sample size: 150
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT03288246
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Health Services Research. Masking: None (Open Label).  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Haiti
Contacts
Name:     Daniel Fitzgerald, MD
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Affiliation:  Weill Cornell Medicine
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Aged 10-24 years

- HIV-infected

- On ART for > 6 months

- Permanent residence in Port-au-Prince

- Able to provide informed consent/assent

Exclusion Criteria:

- Requires urgent VL test the day of enrollment/randomization

- Requires ART regimen change

- Currently pregnant

- Co-infected with tuberculosis

- Severe co-morbidities including cognitive impairment, bipolar disorder, psychosis, or
current need for inpatient psychiatric hospitalization



Age minimum: 10 Years
Age maximum: 24 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
HIV
Intervention(s)
Diagnostic Test: point-of-care viral load test
Primary Outcome(s)
The number of steps in the HIV care cascade involved with viral load testing. [Time Frame: 1 day of clinic visit]
Secondary Outcome(s)
The proportion of participants who achieve or sustain a viral level <1000 cells/ml [Time Frame: 6 months]
The proportion of participants who demonstrate comprehension of the correlation between ART adherence and viral level [Time Frame: 1 month]
Secondary ID(s)
1708018474
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Haitian Group for the Study of Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic
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Results
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