Sustainable East Africa Research in Community Health (SEARCH)
HIV, Tuberculosis, Hypertension
About this trial
This is an interventional other trial for HIV focused on measuring HIV treatment and prevention, Tuberculosis, Community health campaign, PrEP
Eligibility Criteria
Community Level Inclusion Criteria:
- Non-adjacent geopolitical units in south-western and eastern Uganda and western Kenya.
- Most recent census population between 9,000 and 11,000 individuals.
- Served by an ART providing health center.
- Community leader commitment for study participation and implementation.
- Accessibility to health center via a maintained transportation route.
- Community location with sufficient distance from other potential study communities to limit contamination of intervention or control conditions (buffer zone)
Individual Level Inclusion Criteria:
- Residency of individual in community, defined as present in household for at least 6 months of the calendar year.
Community Level Exclusion Criteria:
- Presence of ongoing community-based ART intervention strategies that provide treatment outside of the current in-country treatment guidelines.
- An urban setting defined as a city with a population of 100,000 or more inhabitants.
- Absence of a health center able to provide ART.
Sites / Locations
- Nyanza Province Kenya
- Eastern Uganda
- Southwestern Uganda
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Active Comparator
1st: universal test and treat; 2nd: targeted PrEP and cascade
1st: baseline community testing; 2nd: None
Intervention arm first phase: annual universal community-based HIV and multi-disease testing; ART for all HIV+ using streamlined care delivery Intervention arm second phase: baseline universal community-based HIV and multi-disease testing; ART for all HIV+ using streamlined care delivery + targeted PrEP, and targeted HIV testing interventions
Comparator arm first phase: baseline community-based HIV and multi-disease testing; ART by country standard of care