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Register: ISRCTN
Last refreshed on: 13 January 2015
Main ID:  ISRCTN17184129
Date of registration: 26/09/2005
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Medical Research Council Unit on AIDS (Uganda)
Public title: Comparison of facility and home-based antiretroviral therapy delivery systems in Uganda
Scientific title: Comparison of facility and home-based antiretroviral therapy delivery systems in Uganda: a randomised controlled trial
Date of first enrolment: 15/02/2005
Target sample size: 1000
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://isrctn.com/ISRCTN17184129
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Randomised controlled trial (Treatment)  
Phase: 
Countries of recruitment
Uganda
Contacts
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Affiliation: 
Name: Shabbar    Jaffar
Address:  London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) Keppel Street WC1E 7HT London United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7927 2418
Email: shabbar.jaffar@lshtm.ac.uk
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Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: All HIV-infected adults (aged 18 years or more) who are started on antiretroviral therapy (ART) by a service provider (The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome [AIDS] Support Organisation) and who plan to remain in the study area for 12 months.
Exclusion criteria: 1. Already on ART and transferred from another centre
2. Live on islands and are difficult to follow-up


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Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Infections and Infestations
Human immunodeficiency virus
Intervention(s)
A comparison of two different ways of providing ART in an African setting - home-based versus facility-based HIV care
Primary Outcome(s)
Time to detectable viral load
Secondary Outcome(s)
1. Adherence
2. Cost effectiveness
3. Treatment failure
Secondary ID(s)
4371
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) (USA) - Co-operative Agreement (ref: IU01-PS000065-01), Medical Research Council (MRC) (UK)
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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