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NCT Number: NCT06751030

Community, Home-based Education, Screening Services Strategy to Increase Cervical Cancer Control Access for HIV-Positive Women in Nigeria

The goal of this observational study is to focus on adapting and implementing a program to promote HPV and cervical cancer (CC) screening and follow-up treatment for HIV-positive women, with three specific aims:

* Adaptation: Use stakeholder deliberation to tailor the successful MoMent program for this population. * Implementation and Assessment: Deploy the adapted MoMent program and evaluate its reach, effectiveness, adoption, and fidelity. * Evaluation: Conduct a post-implementation process evaluation to identify barriers and facilitators to the program's maintenance and sustainability.

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Key information

Age range

25 year–50 year

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Observational

Primary location

APIN Health Initiatives, Abuja, Nigeria

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About this study

Despite the increased risk of cervical cancer (CC) among women living with HIV (WLWH), access to CC screening in Nigeria remains limited. While advances in prevention programs and antiretroviral therapy have reduced other AIDS-associated malignancies, CC risk in WLWH persists. This study aims to leverage Nigeria's existing HIV treatment infrastructure to integrate home-based CC (HCC) screening for WLWH.

The approach involves adapting the MoMent (MOther MENTor) peer-based HIV support program to include HCC screening and evaluating its implementation and sustainability using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) and RE-AIM frameworks. The study has three key aims:

  • Adapting the MoMent program to promote home-based HPV screening and follow-up treatment through stakeholder deliberation.
  • Implementing and assessing the program's reach, effectiveness, adoption, and fidelity with a sample of 1,500 WLWH.
  • Conducting a post-implementation evaluation to identify barriers and enablers for program maintenance and scalability.

Stakeholder input, including perspectives from WLWH, peer counselors, clinical managers, and policymakers, will guide the program's design and execution. By integrating stakeholder insights and addressing systemic challenges, the study aims to advance CC control in Nigeria and provide a scalable model for implementing cancer control strategies for people living with HIV in low- and middle-income countries globally.

Who can participate

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Patients must be able to perform vaginal self-collection as well as give informed consent

Exclusion criteria

  • Male gender
  • Age <25 or >50
  • Unknown or negative HIV status
  • Pregnancy
  • Hysterectomy
  • Inability to give informed consent Inability/refusal to perform vaginal self-collection

Treatment and study plan

The Mother Mentor program

Behavioral

The MOther MENTor (MoMent) program in Nigeria pairs trained treatment-experienced Women living with HIV (WLWH), known as Mentor Mothers (MMs), with new mothers who are newly diagnosed with HIV to improve access to and retention in HIV care

Other names: MoMent Program

GeneXpert HPV test

Diagnostic Test

A cervical cancer screening tool.

Primary outcomes

  1. Program Reach

    Time frame: Baseline, Month 6, Month 18

    Reach evaluated through the provision of home test kits to eligible women, returned samples, number of WLWH positive for high-risk HPV (hrHPV) treated, persistence or reoccurrence of hrHPV or cervical precancerous lesions post-treatment, and correlation of these results with CD4 and HIV viral load.

  2. Effectiveness of the Program

    Time frame: Baseline, Month 6, Month 18

    Effectiveness evaluated through the provision of home test kits to eligible women, returned samples, number of WLWH positive for high-risk HPV (hrHPV) treated, persistence or recurrence of hrHPV or cervical precancerous lesions post-treatment, and correlation of these results with CD4 and HIV viral load.

  3. Adoption of the program

    Time frame: Baseline, Month 6, Month 18

    Adoption will be measured through the proportions of MMs who complete training and WLWH who return self-collected (SC) samples

  4. Fidelity of the program

    Time frame: Baseline, Month 6, Month 18

    Will be measured by peer leaders' monitoring of practices, as well as measuring system barriers and added MoMent program costs per completed home screening

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Lisa Flowers, MD, MPH

CONTACT

[email protected]

404-712-3522

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Emory University

Other

Collaborators

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Registry information

Official study title

Community, Home-based Education, Screening Services (CHESS) Strategy to Increase Cervical Cancer Control Access for HIV-Positive Women in Nigeria

Important dates

Study start
2024
Primary completion
2026
Study completion
2026
First posted
Dec 27, 2024
Registry last updated
Aug 6, 2025

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