Indonesia Intervention Study to Test & Treat People with Acute HIV Infection (INTERACT)

Funder
Medical Research Council (UK)

Principal Investigators
Professor Irwanto
Associate Professor Raph Hamers

Locations
Jakarta and Bali, Indonesia

Duration
1 December 2022 – 1 December 2025

Status
Study preparations are currently ongoing. Participant recruitment is expected to start in Q1 2023.

The aim of this implementation study is to demonstrate the proof-of-concept that context-specific implementation of acute HIV infection diagnostic screening.

Background

There is an uncontrolled HIV epidemic among key populations at highest risk of HIV infection in Indonesia, including men who have sex with men (MSM), transgender people and sex workers. Innovative, context-specific interventions are urgently needed to break HIV transmission.

Multi-component intervention models based on detection of individuals with acute HIV infection (AHI), using symptom and behaviour risk scores and point-of-care HIV viral load diagnostic testing, have been successful in curbing local HIV epidemics in several cities in high-income countries, by enabling direct linkage to care and immediate initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) as well as enhanced HIV testing of their sexual partners.

There is thus a strong impetus to tailor those successful models to explosive epidemics in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) such as in Indonesia.

Aims

Addressing an unmet need of high priority, the principal overarching research question of the INTERACT project is to evaluate whether implementing a patient-centered AHI clinical pathway, coupled with a digital behavioral intervention reaching out to the wider target community, can curb the rapidly growing HIV epidemic among key populations in Jakarta and Bali.

The aim of this implementation study is to demonstrate the proof-of-concept that context-specific implementation of AHI diagnostic screening, as part of a clinical pathway for same-day diagnosis and treatment of AHI, can optimize current HIV care delivery and strengthen the HIV care cascade, and thereby curb the explosive HIV epidemic in key populations in Jakarta and Bali, Indonesia.

Implemented at three high-volume sexual health clinics, INTERACT will assess the effectiveness/yield, uptake/adoption, acceptance, feasibility, and cost-effectiveness, and estimate its potential for impact at scale, of the intervention. The INTERACT project will strengthen local capacities to adopt implementation science approaches to improve HIV service delivery, reduce new HIV infections, death and health costs, and provide critical evidence to health policymakers in Indonesia, and in other LMIC.

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OUCRU

Professor Irwanto

Amsterdam UMC

Amsterdam University Medical Centre

Atma Jaya

Atma Jaya Catholic University

Big data institute

Big Data Institute, University of Oxford

NHS

Chelsea & Westminster Hospital – NHS Foundation Trust

UI

Department Of Internal Medicine, University of Indonesia

Udaya

Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University

KEMRI

KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme

Glasgow

University of Glasgow

Bali Peduli

Yayasan Bali Peduli

Yayasan

Yayasan Kasih Globalindo

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