Can funding and training boost HIV testing in syringe programs?
NCT ID NCT06730555
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study tests whether giving syringe service programs funding and training helps them offer routine HIV and hepatitis C testing to people who inject drugs. About 40 programs will either get this support or just receive a link to CDC resources. The goal is to see if more people get tested and linked to care.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- practice facilitation and funding
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could show a practical way to increase HIV and hepatitis C testing and care for people who inject drugs.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early-stage study with only 40 sites, so results may not apply broadly. It tests organizational change, not a direct medical treatment.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 40 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jun 2025
- Expected to finish
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Aug 2028
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * SSPs must: 1. be operating in an Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) determined vulnerable jurisdictions; 2. serve at least 300 unique participants per year; 3. not currently offer opt-out HIV/HCV testing; 4. be capable and willing to prospectively collect aggregated, site-level data on the number of participants who are: i) offered HIV/HCV screening, ii) completed these tests, and iii) linked to care, as well as provide participant demographics; 5. have key staff that consent to participate in study surveys, qualitative interviews and practice facilitation throughout the study. Exclusion Criteria: * SSPs must not: 1. currently receive or have received Frontline Communities in the United States (FOCUS) funding; 2. have already implemented opt-out HIV/HCV testing. 3. currently participating in SAIA-SSP-HIV (NCT06025435)
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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How to take part
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The places running it
1 site. The list below names each one and where it is.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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University of Miami
RECRUITINGMiami, Florida, 33136, United States
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