Trial reportThe lancet. HIV2017
Assisted partner services for HIV in Kenya: a cluster randomised controlled trial.
Trial report in The lancet. HIV, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01616420 (Assisted Partner Notification to Augment HIV Treatment and Prevention in Kenya), which is not on this map. Cited by 92 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Assisted Partner Notification to Augment HIV Treatment and Prevention in Kenya
Who cites it
92 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 145 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Effectiveness of Contact Tracing to Reduce Transmission of Infectious Diseases During Epidemic or Pandemic Response: Rapid Systematic Review.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2026Pooled it
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- A Review of the Ring Trial Design for Evaluating Ring Interventions for Infectious Diseases.Epidemiologic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Effectiveness of contact tracing in the control of infectious diseases: a systematic review.The Lancet. Public health · 2022Pooled it
- Interventions to Improve Linkage to HIV Care in the Era of "Treat All" in Sub-Saharan Africa: a Systematic Review.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2019Pooled it
- Improving HIV test uptake and case finding with assisted partner notification services.AIDS (London, England) · 2017Pooled it
- Assessing Fidelity to HIV Index Case Testing Protocols in Malawian Clinical Settings: Results From a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2026Trial
- Prison-based HIV partner notification in Indonesia: rationale and design of a hybrid type 1 effectiveness-implementation study.BMC public health · 2026Trial
- Impact of family networks on uptake of health interventions: evidence from a community-randomized control trial aimed at increasing HIV testing in South Africa.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2023Trial
- Impart: findings from a prison-based model of HIV assisted partner notification in Indonesia.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2023Trial
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- A randomized controlled trial evaluating combination detection of HIV in Malawian sexually transmitted infections clinics.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2021Trial
- Index participant characteristics and HIV assisted partner services efficacy in Kenya: results of a cluster randomized trial.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2019Trial
- Brief Report: HIV Assisted Partner Services Among Those With and Without a History of Intimate Partner Violence in Kenya.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2018Trial
- Assisted partner notification services are cost-effective for decreasing HIV burden in western Kenya.AIDS (London, England) · 2018Trial
- Community intervention improves knowledge of HIV status of adolescents in Zambia: findings from HPTN 071-PopART for youth study.AIDS (London, England) · 2017Trial
- Understanding how digital training enhances healthcare worker perceptions of HIV index case testing: a qualitative explanatory analysis.Research square · 2026Article
- Predictors of HIV testing uptake among men in Ghana: insights from the 2017/2018 multiple indicator cluster survey.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Human-Centered Design of an mHealth Tool for Optimizing HIV Index Testing in Wartime Ukraine: Formative Research Case Study.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
- Intimate partner violence among HIV index case testing clients in Malawi, a mixed-methods study.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
32 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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14 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundAssisted partner services for index patients with HIV infections involves elicitation of information about sex partners and contacting them to ensure that they test for HIV and link to care. Assisted partner services are not widely available in Africa. We aimed to establish whether or not assisted partner services increase HIV testing, diagnoses, and linkage to care among sex partners of people with HIV infections in Kenya.
methodsIn this cluster randomised controlled trial, we recruited non-pregnant adults aged at least 18 years with newly or recently diagnosed HIV without a recent history of intimate partner violence who had not yet or had only recently linked to HIV care from 18 HIV testing services clinics in Kenya. Consenting sites in Kenya were randomly assigned (1:1) by the study statistician (restricted randomisation; balanced distribution in terms of county and proximity to a city) to immediate versus delayed assisted partner services. Primary outcomes were the number of partners tested for HIV, the number who tested HIV positive, and the number enrolled in HIV care, in those who were interviewed at 6 week follow-up. Participants within each cluster were masked to treatment allocation because participants within each cluster received the same intervention. This trial is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, number NCT01616420.
findingsBetween Aug 12, 2013, and Aug 31, 2015, we randomly allocated 18 clusters to immediate and delayed HIV assisted partner services (nine in each group), enrolling 1305 participants: 625 (48%) in the immediate group and 680 (52%) in the delayed group. 6 weeks after enrolment of index patients, 392 (67%) of 586 partners had tested for HIV in the immediate group and 85 (13%) of 680 had tested in the delayed group (incidence rate ratio 4·8, 95% CI 3·7-6·4). 136 (23%) partners had new HIV diagnoses in the immediate group compared with 28 (4%) in the delayed group (5·0, 3·2-7·9) and 88 (15%) versus 19 (3%) were newly enrolled in care (4·4, 2·6-7·4). Assisted partner services did not increase intimate partner violence (one intimate partner violence event related to partner notification or study procedures occurred in each group).
interpretationAssisted partner services are safe and increase HIV testing and case-finding; implementation at the population level could enhance linkage to care and antiretroviral therapy initiation and substantially decrease HIV transmission.
fundingNational Institutes of Health.
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