Active clinical trials for "HIV Seropositivity"

This is a CCTG sponsored project to determine if those recently screened for HIV would accept assistance to be linked into appropriate health services. After receiving their HIV results, high-risk individuals who test negative will have an option to be linked into a study that offers them Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), and individuals who test positive will have an option to be linked into care. If they accept, tested individuals will be in contact with an ALERT specialist that will help facilitate their linkage. The study's primary analysis will analyze how many HIV screened individuals accept the ALERT specialist assistance.

The importance of good nutrition and food security among people living with HIV infection (PLHIV) is widely recognized. In resource-constrained settings, food insecurity is increasingly recognized as an important barrier to retention in care and adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART). However, there are few studies demonstrating that food and nutrition assistance programs can improve HIV-related outcomes. This study will address this gap by comparing the effectiveness of three models for short-term support for PLHIV. Food insecure women and men on ART will be randomized into one of three groups: 1) nutrition assessment and counseling (NAC) alone, 2) NAC plus food assistance, or 3) NAC plus cash transfers. The investigators will compare the effect of the three approaches on ART adherence and retention in care after 6, 12, and 24-36 months of follow-up. The investigators hypothesize that NAC plus short-term support in the form of food or cash assistance will result in better adherence to ART and retention in care than NAC alone, and that the effects of NAC plus food assistance will be the same as NAC plus cash assistance. The results from the study will provide evidence about which assistance modalities for PLHIV work best to improve ART adherence and retention in care, and under what conditions. This study will be conducted in Shinyanga Region, Tanzania, where approximately 17 percent of households have poor or borderline food consumption and 7.4 percent of people are living with HIV infection.

Despite overall declines in HIV incidence and mortality since ART scale-up in low and middle income countries, both have risen among youth. In addition, HIV-infected youth achieve inferior treatment outcomes compared to their adult counterparts in both high- and low-income countries, and these poorer outcomes are generally attributed to suboptimal adherence. Thus, there is a critical need for the development of adherence and risk reduction interventions for the growing cohort of these youth, and the proposed cognitive behavioral N'ap Grandi is one such intervention.

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effect of Positive Health Check (PHC), an online intervention that delivers tailored, evidence-based prevention messages to HIV positive patients, on improving clinical outcomes and retention in care of people who are HIV positive and have unsuppressed viral loads. The costs and processes of implementation will also be assessed to inform future dissemination.

This protocol is for the long term follow-up study of "Comparing Food and Cash Assistance for HIV-Positive Men and Women on Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) in Tanzania", a 3-arm randomized controlled trial led by Professor Sandra McCoy at the University of California Berkeley and Dr. Prosper Njau at the Tanzanian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. The investigators will determine the long-term effectiveness of short-term incentives for ART adherence and retention in care. The study will also determine whether incentives can also be used to re-engage PLHIV with HIV care after they have fallen out of care.

This study proposes to assess whether a modified Antiretroviral Treatment Access Study intervention, proved to be effective in the U.S. and based on the nurse case management approach, can impact the enrollment in HIV care of recently detected HIV-positive patients in specialized health care clinics in three regions in Ukraine, using the existing local infrastructure. The proposed study addresses a significant public health issue of non-/late enrollment of HIV-positive persons in HIV care and treatment.

Youth with evidence of virologic failure defined as an HIV VL>400 copies/mL on two consecutive occasions at least 1 month apart will be eligible for enrollment. Youth will be randomized to a community based peer counseling support group or clinic based standard of care, with viral load, and drug monitoring evaluations at 3 month intervals to determine the efficacy of the intervention in improving adherence and virologic suppression.

The proposed study uses a two-arm randomized experimental design to evaluate the efficacy of a brief, theoretically-guided, "Prevention Care Advocate" intervention with HIV-positive crack users. Study participants will be recruited from the HIV inpatient hospital wards of two inner-city hospitals that serve a similar population of HIV-positive patients: Jackson Memorial Hospital (JMH) in Miami, Florida and Grady Memorial Hospital (GMH) in Atlanta, Georgia.

Following the ANRS-APSEC survey, AMEP-EHVA T02 is a longitudinal social science study that will explore the experience of people living with HIV (PLWH) who were offered to participate in the European randomized phase II placebo-controlled trial of vedolizumab with or without therapeutic HIV MVA vaccine including antiretroviral treatment interruption (EHVA T02/ANRS VRI07).

Evaluation of antiretroviral treatment adherence using determination of Bictegravir, Emtricitabine and Tenofovir with new HIV patients in France