A Cluster Randomised Trial of Community-led Distribution of HIV Self-tests in Rural Malawi (HIV Self-Testing Africa [STAR])

"Community leaders, including GVHs, Village Health Committee members, Village Development Committee members, and members of key community groups will participate in a workshop to facilitate planning of a HIVST campaign. Identified community distributors, who are unpaid volunteers from the community, will also receive a training package in HIVST promotion.~Campaigns will be conducted over a short period (approximately seven days) and under a fixed budget. Community distributors will deliver HIVST kits free of charge to community members, and provide information on how to self-test and access the nearest clinic for linkage to confirmatory HTS, treatment and prevention. Distributors will also provide HIV prevention messages around serodiscordancy, treatment as prevention and VMMC."