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Private-sector Access to Testing for Health Sustainability
Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco
Summary
New and innovative strategies are urgently needed to increase the uptake of HIV prevention and sexual and reproductive health services among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in sub-Saharan Africa. To ensure the real-world sustainability of free distribution of HIV self-test kits to AGYW by private drug shops and pharmacies, investigators will rigorously test supply-side subsidy structures for shopkeepers' provision of HIV-self test kits to AGYW combined with prosocial motivational supports. The combination of non-monetary and monetary support structures aims to emulate real-world health financing models for public-private partnerships and ultimately aims to improve equity in access to critical prevention services for AGYW at scale.
Official title: Expanding Access to HIV Self-test Kits: Sustaining Private Sector Channels That Enable Access to Preventive Health Services
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
200
Start Date
2026-05-01
Completion Date
2029-04-30
Last Updated
2026-01-26
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Conditions
Interventions
Low HIVST kit subsidy
The two study groups are the "high" and "low" subsidy groups. The high subsidy group will start off with a 90% subsidy while the low subsidy group will start off with a 50% subsidy. Both study groups will experience decreasing subsidies at each phase of the study.
High HIVST kit subsidy
The two study groups are the "high" and "low" subsidy groups. The high subsidy group will start off with a 90% subsidy while the low subsidy group will start off with a 50% subsidy. Both study groups will experience decreasing subsidies at each phase of the study.
Locations (1)
Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit
Mwanza, Tanzania