Peer Led Outreach to Engage Male Partners of Pregnant Women in Uganda (Okutuuka Study)

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

150

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

May 20, 2022

Primary Completion Date

May 31, 2023

Study Completion Date

July 15, 2023

Conditions
Engagement, PatientMale Peer RecruitmentHIV TestingLinkage to Care
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Male peer engagement

Male partners of women randomized to the intervention arm will receive a phone call from the male peer to encourage them to test for HIV at the clinic. Male peer fathers will offer to meet men at the clinic and guide them through the process of HIV testing. Men who are not willing/able to attend the clinic for HIV testing will be offered testing in a private and confidential location in the community; the peer male counselor meet men and offer to assist them through the process of using and interpreting an oral HIVST. Men who are not interested in testing with the peer father will be offered the HIVST kit to take home. Peer fathers will obtain men's consent to participate in the study.

BEHAVIORAL

SOC and delayed intervention

Females receive standard of care invitation letter to provide to their partner for fast-track HIV testing and male peer father phone calls after a 3 month delay.

Trial Locations (1)

Unknown

Infectious Disease Institute, Kampala

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

NIH

lead

University of Washington

OTHER