Trial reportAIDS and behavior2022
A Cluster-Randomized Trial of Traditional Healer-Delivered Counseling and Rapid HIV Testing in Tanzania.
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- Can Traditional Health Practitioners Deliver HIV Counseling and Testing Services? A Pilot Study in Rural South Africa.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2025Article
- Adaption and pilot testing of a lay HIV supporter program for traditional healers: a mixed methods study in rural Uganda.Implementation science communications · 2023Article
- Understanding the role of traditional healers in the HIV care cascade: Findings from a qualitative study among stakeholders in Mwanza, Tanzania.PLOS global public health · 2022Article
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8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Collaborations with traditional healers have been proposed to improve HIV testing uptake. We hypothesized that healer-delivered HIV testing would improve HIV testing uptake, compared with referral to clinic-based HIV testing. We conducted a cluster randomized trial to determine the effectiveness of traditional healers delivering counseling and HIV testing in Mwanza, Tanzania (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT#04071873). Intervention arm healers provided counseling and offered point-of-care HIV tests to adult clients of unknown HIV serostatus. Control arm healers provided referral for clinic-based testing. Primary outcome was receipt of an HIV test within 90 days of enrollment. Secondary outcomes were new HIV diagnosis and linkage to care. In the intervention, 100 clients (100%) received an HIV test, compared with 73 (73%) of control participants (p < 0.001). Two intervention arm participants (2%) had a new diagnosis compared with zero in the control arm (p = 0.50). Engaging traditional healers might provide a culturally concordant opportunity to improve HIV testing uptake.
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