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Trial reportFrontiers in public health2021

The Impact on HIV Testing Over 6 Months When Free Oral HIV Self-Test Kits Were Available to Truck Drivers in Kenya: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Elizabeth A Kelvin, Gavin George, Matthew L Romo, Joanne E Mantell, Eva Mwai, Eston N Nyaga, Jacob O Odhiambo, Kaymarlin Govender

Open access · goldAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Frontiers in public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 39% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Elizabeth A KelvinDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York, New York, NY, United States.
Gavin GeorgeHealth Economics and HIV and AIDS Research Division, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Matthew L RomoDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York, New York, NY, United States.
Joanne E MantellGender, Sexuality and Health Area, Department of Psychiatry, HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, United States.
Eva MwaiNorth Star Alliance, Nairobi, Kenya.
Eston N NyagaNorth Star Alliance, Nairobi, Kenya.
Jacob O OdhiamboNorth Star Alliance, Nairobi, Kenya.
Kaymarlin GovenderHealth Economics and HIV and AIDS Research Division, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
City University of New York · USUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal · ZAColumbia University Irving Medical Center · US

Funding

Patient and Population Health Outcomes Research SWGP30AI124414 · NIAID · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC · PI Kathryn M. Anastos · 2017 to 2026
$28.3M
NIAID NIH HHS P30 AI124414
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

HIV InfectionsHIV TestingHumansKenyaMass ScreeningMotor VehiclesSelf-TestingHIVHIV self-testingHIV testingimplementation scienceKenyarandomized controlled trialtruck drivers

Identifiers

PMID34660501
PMCPMC8514766
OpenAlexW3204353521

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Registered trials

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