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Comparing Mobile Health Strategies to Improve Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Use (PrEP) for HIV Prevention

Public Health Foundation Enterprises, Inc. · with Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco · NCT04855773

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Key facts

Compensation
Not posted. Ask the study team before screening.
Who can join
Ages 15+ · All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Study type
Interventional · Not applicable
Target enrollment
300
US sites recruiting
3
Study start
July 21, 2021
Record last updated
September 28, 2022

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What the study is about

The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness of two mobile health technologies (text messaging or a mobile app) designed to help people take HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) as directed by the clinic. PrEP is the use of a daily anti-HIV medications by HIV-negative people to help prevent HIV infection.

Being studied: PrEPmate; Dot Diary

Conditions: HIV Infections; Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Eligibility criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

  • Self-identifies as a cisgender man, transgender man (assigned female at birth, trans-masculine spectrum), or transgender woman (assigned male sex at birth, trans-feminine spectrum)
  • Report sex with a cisgender man or transgender woman or any individual assigned male sex at birth in the past 12 months
  • Age 15 years or older
  • Willing and able to provide written informed consent
  • Owns an iOS or Android mobile phone and able to access the internet and send and receive text messages
  • Able to understand, read, and speak English or Spanish
  • Newly initiated PrEP or currently on PrEP and at risk for PrEP discontinuation based on at least one of the following:
  • Initiated PrEP within the past 6 months, or
  • Has any of the following risk factors for PrEP discontinuation: missed clinic visits; age \< 30; African-American or Latino; transgender gender identity; or self-reported illicit substance use

Exclusion Criteria

  • Currently enrolled in another PrEP intervention study
  • Unable to complete 12 month study participation
  • Any medical, psychiatric, or social condition or other responsibilities that, in the judgment of the investigator, would make participation in the study unsafe, complicate interpretation of study outcome data, or otherwise interfere with achieving the study objectives.

Recruiting US locations

  • San Francisco AIDS Foundation

    San Francisco, CA 94114

    Site contact: Rikki Montoya · 415-920-3653 · rmontoya@sfaf.org

  • Whitman-Walker Health

    Washington D.C., DC 20009

    Site contact: Rupa Patel, MD, MPH · 202-745-7000 · rpatel@whitman-walker.org

  • University of Miami

    Miami, FL 33136

    Site contact: Susanne Doblecki-Lewis, MD, MSPH, FIDSA · 305-243-9213 · sdoblecki@med.miami.edu

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