An interventional study of Couple-oriented post-test HIV counseling in Partner HIV Testing, Couple HIV Counseling and Couple Communication, sponsored by French National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis. Completed at 4 sites in 4 countries. Open to female participants aged 15 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2011-12-19.
Sponsored by French National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
ANRS 12127 Prenahtest is an intervention trial conducted in four countries (Cameroon, Dominican Republic, Georgia and India), where pregnant women are randomized during prenatal care to receive either standard post-test HIV counseling, or an innovative intervention called couple-oriented post-test HIV counseling (COC).
The aim of the COC intervention is to empower women to communicate with her male partner about HIV, and HIV testing in particular, and encourage him to return for HIV testing and/or couple HIV counseling (where both couple members are counseled together).
Prenahtest is the first randomised trial testing a prenatal intervention to increase partner HIV testing.
French National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis is the lead sponsor of 83 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Women received couple-oriented post-test HIV counseling
Behavioral: Couple-oriented post-test HIV counseling
Women received post-test HIV counseling as per standard site protocol
COC is an individual behavioural intervention, strengthening standard post-test HIV counselling delivered to pregnant women after prenatal HIV testing. COC was based on the assumption that developing women's communication skills and self-efficacy during HIV counselling would enable them to discuss HIV and sexual issues with their partners, and yield tangible effects on partner HIV testing. The structure of the COC intervention was adapted from a WHO PMTCT counselling manual and was described in a COC manual, which was used to train the COC counsellors and could also be used during the counselling session. Tested during the pilot phase of the trial, COC was shown to be feasible and acceptable in the four study sites.
Partner HIV testing
Proportion of male partners tested for HIV during the study follow-up period (from post-test HIV counseling to the last follow-up visit at 6 months postpartum) among the pregnant women enrolled in the trial
Time frame: 6 months postpartum
Couple HIV counseling
Proportion of women receiving couple HIV counseling uring the study follow-up period (from post-test HIV counseling to the last follow-up visit at 6 months postpartum) among the pregnant women enrolled in the trial
Time frame: 6 months postpartum
HIV incidence
Proportion of women tested HIV-positive during the study follow-up period (from post-test HIV counseling to the last follow-up visit at 6 months postpartum) among the pregnant women tested HIV-negative at enrolment
Time frame: 6 months postpartum
Couple communication of sexual and reproductive health
Proportion of women reporting having discussed sexual and reproductive health issues (family planning, HIV, condom) during the study follow-up period (from post-test HIV counseling to the last follow-up visit at 6 months postpartum) among the pregnant women enrolled in the trial
Time frame: 6 months postpartum
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