Brief Summary

The I-TEST study builds upon two participatory approaches, open challenge contests and entrepreneurship training. The study utilizes open challenge contest to generate youth-driven interventions on strategies to promote HIV self-testing and other testing for other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among young people in Nigeria. Open challenge contests involves leveraging on the knowledge and strengths of the crowd (in this case young people) to generate solutions to an issue. Following completion of one of the open challenge contest, was the Designathon contest where young people in Nigeria collaborated to develop new services and products for promoting self-testing for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, guided by human-centered, design thinking framework. After which, six teams from the Designathon were selected to move onto an Innovation bootcamp. The Innovation bootcamp was a 4-week long accelerated training program for young people to delve into the world of entrepreneurial and innovation management skills, while applying basic research principles. At the end of the course, 5 finalist teams were selected to pilot test their innovation plan in the community for a duration of 6 months, beginning July 2019. This study is focused on evaluating the effectiveness of these five youth participatory interventions on HIV testing and other key prevention among at risk youth (14-24 years old in Nigeria).This research study will involve undertaking a prospective one-year assessment of these five pilot interventions.

Trial Health

On Track

Trial Health Score

Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach

Enrollment

388

participants targeted

Target at P75+ for early_phase_1

Timeline

Completed

Started Jul 2019

Geographic Reach

1 country

1 active site

Status

completed

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Trial Relationships

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Study Timeline

Key milestones and dates

1.2 years study duration

Study Start

First participant enrolled

July 1, 2019

Completed

19 days until next milestone

First Submitted

Initial submission to the registry

July 20, 2019

Completed

1 month until next milestone

First Posted

Study publicly available on registry

August 28, 2019

Completed

11 months until next milestone

Primary Completion

Last participant's last visit for primary outcome

July 31, 2020

Completed

1 month until next milestone

Study Completion

Last participant's last visit for all outcomes

September 1, 2020

Completed

1 year until next milestone

Results Posted

Study results publicly available

September 14, 2021

Completed

Last Updated

December 21, 2023

Status Verified

December 1, 2023

Enrollment Period

1.1 years

First QC Date

July 20, 2019

Results QC Date

July 27, 2021

Last Update Submit

December 19, 2023

Conditions

HIV/AIDS Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Keywords

HIV PreventionHIV self-testingyoung peopleNigeria

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

Uptake of HIV Self-testing Over the 3 Months Follow-up
Proportion of participants who reported to have self-tested for HIV at 3-month after baseline.
3 months following the first encounter

Secondary Outcomes (5)

Uptake of HIV Testing Over the 6 Months Follow-up
6-month
Uptake of Syphilis Testing
6-month
Uptake of Gonorrhea Testing
6-month
Uptake of Hepatitis b Testing
6-month
Uptake of Chlamydia Testing
6-month

Study Arms (5)

SMART Pack

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

This involves using "SMART Pack" a HIV self-testing kit to promote uptake of HIV self-testing among young people at community centers.

Combination Product: SMART Pack

Luv Box

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

The intervention involves using "Luv Box" a box that include personal hygiene products and HIV self-testing kit as strategy to promote uptake of HIV testing among young people.

Combination Product: Luv Box

Bili Vibes

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

The intervention involves using a program program called "Bili" that leverages community youth events such as football matches as a strategy to promote the uptake of HIV self-testing among young people.

Combination Product: Bili Vibes

BeterDoc

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

This intervention involve using "BeterDoc Safety kits" that includes HIV self-testing kit, location and phone number to the health centers in the community as a strategy to promote update of HIV self-testing among young people.

Combination Product: BeterDoc

IUNGO

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

This intervention involves using a program utilizes community vocational skills training centers to promote uptake of HIV self-testing among young people.

Combination Product: IUNGO

Interventions

SMART PackCOMBINATION_PRODUCT

The SMART pack is a re-branded and repackaged box for HIV self-testing kits. The intervention aims to promote distribution of HIVST kits through in institutions, vocational centers, and social media platforms. The intervention would also include a referral systems, where participants provided with the HIV self-testing kits are provided with information with youth-friendly health facilities for uptake of testing for sexually transmitted infections. The intervention would be promoted using flyers at community events and schools. The flyers will provide information on the SMART pack and the location where the pack can be obtained for individuals who are interested. For this pilot study, the intervention will be implemented in Yaba local government area in Lagos state.