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Sponsor: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Conditions: HIV Testing
Interventions: Text message-based intervention
Countries: Peru
The rate of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) remains high among Peruvian men who have sex with men (MSM), and new prevention programs should be developed to reach and provide sexual health services to more MSM. The Internet is a feasible medium both for recruiting participants and for implementing projects with MSM in Lima, Peru. Likewise, in Peru, mobile phones are promising tools for carrying out HIV-related interventions due to the high rate of mobile phone penetration. The Internet is a way to reach MSM who do not attend traditional health centers due to the stigma associated with being homosexual. Since mobile phones can be used to promote health, the investigators proposed to design, implement, and evaluate an intervention using text messages to promote HIV testing among Peruvian MSM recruited online. To achieve this objective, the investigators conducted a randomized controlled trial to assess the efficacy of a text message-based intervention to promote HIV testing among MSM in Lima recruited via the Internet.
Sex: MALE
Age: 18 Years to —
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Inclusion Criteria: * Be male at birth * Be 18 years of age or older * Be a resident of Lima, Peru * Report having had sex (oral or anal) with another man in the past 12 months * Provide informed consent * Own a mobile phone Exclusion Criteria: * Report being HIV-positive * Have taken an HIV test within the past year
- Lima, Lima Province, Peru