Trial no.:
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PACTR201312000678196 |
Date of Approval:
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15/10/2013 |
Trial Status:
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Retrospective registration - This trial was registered after enrolment of the first participant |
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TRIAL DESCRIPTION |
Public title
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Towards eMTCT: Innovative strategies for improving mother-child pair retention and access to essential PMTCT care in Malawi |
Official scientific title |
Towards eMTCT: Innovative strategies for improving mother-child pair retention and access to essential PMTCT care in Malawi |
Brief summary describing the background
and objectives of the trial
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Poor mother-child pair retention has been documented as one of the main challenges in delivering HIV Prevention of Mother-to-child (PMTCT) programs. The overall research objective of this study is to compare the effectiveness of three mother-child pair retention strategies, namely; Mother¿Infant¿Pair (MIP) Clinic, MIP Clinic plus SMS Frontline Technology and the current standard of care [status quo], on retention of mother¿infant pairs in HIV care and treatment. |
Type of trial |
CCT |
Acronym (If the trial has an acronym then please provide) |
PRIME |
Disease(s) or condition(s) being studied |
Infections and Infestations |
Sub-Disease(s) or condition(s) being studied |
HIV/AIDS |
Purpose of the trial |
Supportive care |
Anticipated trial start date |
13/05/2013 |
Actual trial start date |
13/05/2013 |
Anticipated date of last follow up |
31/08/2016 |
Actual Last follow-up date |
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Anticipated target sample size (number of participants) |
2310 |
Actual target sample size (number of participants) |
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Recruitment status |
Recruiting |
Publication URL |
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