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Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT01414413
Date of registration: 10/08/2011
Primary sponsor: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Public title: Home Assessment and Initiation of Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV in Malawi CONDA-YAPA
Scientific title: Home Assessment and Initiation of ART: a Cluster-randomised Trial in Blantyre, Malawi
Date of first enrolment: January 2012
Target sample size: 16800
Recruitment status: Recruiting
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01414413
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Health Services Research  
Countries of recruitment
Malawi
Contacts
Name:   Peter MacPherson, MBChB MPH MRes
Address: 
Telephone: +265 191 9304
Email: p.macpherson@liverpool.ac.uk
Affiliation: 
Name:   Peter MacPherson, MBChB MPH
Address: 
Telephone: +265 191 9304
Email: p.macpherson@liverpool.ac.uk
Affiliation: 
Name:   Peter MacPherson, MBChCB MPH
Address: 
Telephone:
Email:
Affiliation:  Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Usual resident of an eligible cluster

- Has had a positive HIV test (regardless of source) and requests facilitated access to
HIV care from the resident community counsellor

- Confirmatory HIV test is positive

- No previous ART treatment, or less than one month's treatment in the past (including
PMTCT interventions) and not currently receiving HIV care

- No contraindications to receiving ART (as defined by Integrated Management of Adult
Illnesses, HIV Department, WHO)

- No acute danger signs requiring hospital referral

- Aged 18 years or older

- Written or witnessed informed consent to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

- Not a usual resident of an eligible cluster

- No previous HIV test, or HIV infection not confirmed by home-based ART nurse

- Already receiving ART, or has had more than 1 month's treatment in the past

- Known contraindication to firstline ART (known hypersensitivity, renal failure,
chronic liver disease)

- Acute danger sign present (as defined by Integrated Management of Adult Illnesses,
HIV Department, WHO)

- Age younger than 18 years

- Not willing to accept home-based ART initiation

- Suspected or confirmed TB disease will not be an exclusion criteria, but will be an
indication for deferral, until completion of the screening algorithm, with initiation
of TB treatment if indicated.



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
HIV
Intervention(s)
Other: Clinic-based ART assessment and initiation
Other: Home assessment and initiation of ART
Primary Outcome(s)
ART initiation [Time Frame: First six months following introduction of home-based HIV testing]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Adherence to ART [Time Frame: First 6-months following availability of home-based HIV testing]
Adult mortality [Time Frame: The first 6-months following availability of home-based HIV testing]
Disclosure of HIV-positive results [Time Frame: The first 6-months following availability of home-based HIV testing]
Retention on ART [Time Frame: The first 6-months following availability of home-based HIV testing]
Uptake of home-based HIV testing [Time Frame: The first 6-months following home assessment and initiation of ART being made available]
Secondary ID(s)
MLW-089673
WT089673/B/09/Z
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Ministry of Health and Population, Malawi
University of Malawi College of Medicine
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