User Guide for: Community based distribution of oral HIV self-testing kits in Zambia: a cluster-randomised trial nested in four HPTN 071 (PopART) intervention communities

Data Description

Data collected during a HIV self-testing study nested within four intervention communities in the HPTN 071 (PopART) trial. The data are aggregated by community ID, whether geographical zones (the clusters for the HIV self-testing trial) within the community were in the HIV self-testing intervention, sex, age group, prior residence in the community and how individuals learnt their HIV status. Through aggregation, the data have been de-identified. Community names have also been changed to a number.

Data Collection Methods

Data were captured on an electronic data capture device by lay counsellor (called Community HIV care providers (CHiPs)) who conducted door-to-door household visits to offer the PopART package of interventions.

Data Analysis and Preparation

Data were aggregated as described above to anonymise the data.

Geographic regions

Data were collected in four urban communities in two northern provinces of Zambia

Key dates

Outcomes were measured from households that were first visited, and individuals first enumerated as a household member, between February 1 and April 30, 2017.

Quality Controls

Briefly describe any quality check that you performed on the data and/or within the project as a whole

Species:

Human population.

Privacy:

Data have been aggregated.

Ethics

HPTN (071) PopART and the nested HIV self-testing study received ethical approval from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Ethics Committee and the University of Zambia Biomedical Research Ethics Committee.

Keywords

HIV, HIV self-testing, men

Language of written material

English

Project title

Community-based Distribution of Oral HIV Self-testing Kits: A pilot intervention and rapid impact evaluation

Funder/Sponsor

The International Initiative for Impact Evaluations (3ie)

Grant Number

Grant no. TW2.2.18.

Data Creators

Associated Roles

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