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Last refreshed on: 27 March 2023
Main ID:  NCT02515370
Date of registration: 30/07/2015
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: MU-JHU CARE
Public title: Friends for Life Circles for Option B Plus FLCs
Scientific title: Using Enhanced Peer Group Strategies to Support Prevention of Mother to Child HIV Transmission (PMTCT) Option B+ in Uganda
Date of first enrolment: May 2016
Target sample size: 540
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02515370
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Other. Masking: None (Open Label).  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Uganda
Contacts
Name:     Philippa Musoke, MD PhD
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Affiliation:  MU-JHU CARE
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria

- Age >18 years

- Documentation of pregnancy through clinical assessment or pregnancy test

- Documentation of confirmed HIV-positive sero-status at the time of screening

- Accepting to receive option B+ for PMTCT

- Providing written informed consent to participate in the randomized trial.

- Agreeing to come the study clinic for scheduled appointments

- Agreeing to be home visited as needed to ensure follow up

- Residing within a 20 km radius around the study clinic

- Not planning to move out of the catchment area within the next 2 years

Exclusion criteria

- Social and other circumstances that may prevent the mother from coming back for follow up



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 55 Years
Gender: Female
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Intervention(s)
Other: Friends for Life Circles (FLCs).
Primary Outcome(s)
Adherence to Option B+ ARV drugs [Time Frame: 2 years]
Retention [Time Frame: 2 years]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Assessing success and sustainability of FLCs group support activities and IGAs [Time Frame: 2 years]
Infant HIV Free survival [Time Frame: 2 years]
Secondary ID(s)
Musoke-R01-080476-Option B+
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Johns Hopkins University
Ethics review
Results
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