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Testing a Barbershop-based HIV Prevention Initiative Among Men

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Sponsor: HIV Prevention Trials Network

Conditions: HIV Infections

Interventions: General, status-neutral HIV education, HIV self-test kits, Information about where to receive HIV prevention services, Barber-led peer support group education, Facility-based HIV risk reduction counseling

Countries: Uganda

To test community-based approaches to engage heterosexual men at risk for HIV and specifically to assess the feasibility and acceptability of a barbershop based HIV prevention program.

Eligibility overview

Sex: MALE

Age: 16 Years to —

Healthy volunteers: Yes

Study type: INTERVENTIONAL

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Persons who identify as a heterosexual male and meet all of the following criteria are eligible for inclusion in this study:

1. Age ≥ 16 years

   a. Any participants 16-17 years old will be enrolled following the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST) guidelines for mature and emancipated minors
2. Able and willing to provide informed consent
3. Behaviorally vulnerable to HIV, based on self-report of at least one of the following in the last three months:

   1. Had condomless sex with a person of unknown HIV status or a person living with HIV
   2. Had more than one sexual partner
4. HIV negative per Ugandan Ministry of Health guidelines and the Study-specific Procedures (SSP) Manual
5. Is a regular customer at a participating barbershop as defined in the SSP Manual

Exclusion Criteria:

Persons who meet any of the following criteria will be excluded from this study:

1. Not planning to stay in the study catchment area in the next 12 months
2. Any other condition that in the opinion of the Investigator of Record (IoR)/designee, would preclude informed consent, make study participation unsafe, complicate interpretation of study outcome data, or otherwise interfere with achieving the study objectives.

Participants who report sex with other men will not be excluded from this study so long as they meet the inclusion and exclusion criteria listed above.

Locations (1)

Kampala, Uganda