1,200
Participants
Start Date
April 1, 2023
Primary Completion Date
July 15, 2024
Study Completion Date
September 30, 2024
Standard Pay-it-forward
400 men who have sex with men (MSM) at 4 clinics will be enrolled. The standard pay-it-forward arm will include free point-of-care gonorrhea testing, as well as a passive community engagement component (such as viewing postcards and materials written by others encouraging gonorrhea/chlamydia testing).
Community Engaged Pay-it-forward
400 MSM at 4 clinics will be enrolled. The community engaged pay-it-forward arm will include free point-of-care gonorrhea testing, as well as an active community engagement component (such as multi-stakeholder co-creation activities to develop essential components of the intervention and implementation strategies; writing postcards; designing fans with stickers; sending out testing promotion messages on social media; and opportunity to donate to support others)
Control arm
400 MSM at 4 clinics will be enrolled. The control arm will include a fee-based point-of-care gonorrhea testing (approximately 20 U.S. Dollars (USD) per test) and no community engagement component
Dermatology Hospital, Institute for Global Health and Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Southern Medical University, China, Guangzhou
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
NIH
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
OTHER