Pay-it-forward Gonorrhea and Chlamydia Testing Among Men in China

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

1,200

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

April 1, 2023

Primary Completion Date

July 15, 2024

Study Completion Date

September 30, 2024

Conditions
Gonorrhea
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

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).

BEHAVIORAL

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)

OTHER

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

Trial Locations (1)

510095

Dermatology Hospital, Institute for Global Health and Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Southern Medical University, China, Guangzhou

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

NIH

lead

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

OTHER