HIV testing and service uptake are infrequent among people who use drugs (PWUD) in the United States. In partnership with a community-based syringe service program (SSP), this project will develop the SSP-based "Prevention Ambassadors" (PA) intervention to promote HIV testing and service uptake among PWUD via the secondary distribution (i.e., peer delivery) of HIV self-testing (HIVST) kits with local HIV service information and referrals to HIV service navigation in the social networks of SSP clients (i.e., PWUD). The PA intervention will then be piloted to assess its preliminary effects, acceptability, and feasibility among PWUD in the Ending the HIV Epidemic priority jurisdiction of Riverside County, California.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
210
Delivery of prevention supplies and information on local services plus training to build the capacity of PWUD to distribute HIV self-testing (HIVST) kits with information and referrals to other PWUD in their social networks to promote HIV testing and HIV service engagement among PWUD.
Delivery of prevention supplies and information on local services.
San Diego State University
San Diego, California, United States
RECRUITINGHIV testing (past 3 months)
Self-reported via survey and abstracted from medical record
Time frame: 3-month follow-up
Linkage to PrEP/HIV care (past 3 months)
Self-reported via survey and abstracted from medical record
Time frame: 3-month follow-up
PrEP/ART uptake (past 3 months)
Self-reported via survey and abstracted from medical record
Time frame: 3-month follow-up
PA Acceptability (Peer-Recruit Participants)
Self-reported via survey
Time frame: Baseline
PA Acceptability (Index Participants)
Self-reported via survey
Time frame: 3-month follow-up
PA Feasibility (Peer-Recruit Participants)
Self-reported via survey
Time frame: Baseline
PA Feasibility (Index Participants)
Self-reported via survey
Time frame: 3-month follow-up
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