iLink (Incentives for Linkage to ART) Study: A Mixed-methods Study to Improve Linkage to HIV Care

NAUnknownINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

87

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

April 30, 2015

Primary Completion Date

July 31, 2016

Study Completion Date

November 30, 2016

Conditions
HIV
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Conditional economic incentive

"Individuals in the intervention arm will receive the standard of care. In addition, individuals in the intervention arm receive a voucher worth R300. They are told that they will get this money if they:~1. Initiate ART at any clinic within 3 months from the time of their CD4 count test at the Tutu Tester; and~2. send a text message to the study team to let us know they have started ART;~3. Schedule a meeting with a member of the study team to show their clinic card and ARVs to confirm ART initiation."

Trial Locations (1)

7705

Tutu Tester Mobile Clinic, Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation, Cape Town

Sponsors

Collaborators (1)

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Brown University

OTHER

lead

University of Cape Town

OTHER