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Enhancing HIV-assisted Contact Tracing in Malawi Through Blended Learning: an Implementation Science Study
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Enhanced implementation package and Standard implementation package for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. Completed, enrolled 841 participants across 33 sites.
Detailed Summary
Having health workers assist HIV-infected persons with the recruitment and testing of their sexual contacts and biological children is an effective and efficient way of identifying additional HIV-infected persons in need of HIV treatment and HIV-uninfected persons in need of HIV prevention. However, in Malawi, a country with a generalized HIV epidemic, health workers lack the counseling and coordination skills to routinely assist their HIV-infected clients with these services. This study will determine how to help health workers to effectively and efficiently provide these services to their patients through a set of digital capacity-building tools.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
Individual training with teaching and modeling (tablet-guided, \~8 hours) Small group training with practice and feedback (tablet-guided, \~16 hours) Ongoing continuous quality improvement sessions (tablet-guided, \~2 hours/month)
Individual training with teaching (facilitator-guided, \~2 hours) Small group practice (facilitator-guided, \~1 hour) Ongoing clinic support (facilitator-guided, \~30 minutes/month)