Peer Delivered HIV/Syphilis Self-Testing With Assisted Partner Notification Services

Participants will be given a demonstration and instructions on how to use self-test kits (written and pictorial instructions in Luganda) and provided with ten serialized kits (five HIVST and five syphilis self-testing) to distribute to eligible social and sexual network members. Peers effective at reaching infrequent and non-testers will be asked to distribute an additional three to five test kits. Each peer will receive an IRB-approved $5 for each kit distributed and accounted for as in prior studies. (62). Respondents will be compensated for each successful recruitment, and SNS recruiting will continue until the sample size of 200 is attained. Each peer will receive a REC-approved transport facilitation of $30 per month since most MSM who have never tested are hard to trace. Control group peers will only distribute invitation letters for fast-track HIV/syphilis at the study clinic to minimize contamination (i.e., use of the intervention by control group participants).